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Madness: A Brief History Book

This work explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac. The origins of current debates about how we define and deal with insanity are examined through eyewitness accounts of those treating patients, writers, artists, and the mad themselves.

  • BookDepository

    Madness : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780192802675 : 0192802674 : 08 May 2003 : What has it been like to be insane? How have the mad been treated? Is madness real or is it just a label? This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day.

  • Blackwell

    Looking back on his confinement to Bedlam, Restoration playwright Nathaniel Lee declared: They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me. As Roy Porter shows in Madness: A Brief History, thinking about who qualifies...

  • 0192802674
  • 9780192802675
  • Roy Porter
  • 13 March 2003
  • OUP Oxford
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
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