Madness in Civilization A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine

ISBN: 9780500252123
Yazar: Andrew Scull
Cilt tipi: Şömizli Sert Kapak

Today, mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a medical lens, but societies have also sought to make sense of it through religion or the supernatural, or by constructing psychological or social explanations in an effort to tame the demons of unreason.Madness in Civilizationtraces the long and complex history of this affliction and our attempts to treat it.

English

2015

448 Pages

16 x 24 cm