insanity – A New Vision for Mental Health

Madness and Method: Exploring the Realm of Unconventional Reasoning

Author: Editorial 9th November 2023 0 Comments

This article by Justin Garson has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “What is madness? Is it merely a colloquial term for ‘mental illness,’ one that is alternatively reviled and reclaimed? Is it merely the lack of reason? Or…
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Arthur Wigan, idiocy, Immanuel Kant, insanity, John Locke, Jonah Bossewitch, Justin Garson, Mad in America, madness, Sofia Jeppsson, Wouter Kusters

Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity

Author: Editorial 4th August 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Prof. Andrew Scull. The publishers say: “The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the common-sense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that can seize hold of some of us:…
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Andrew Scull, Culture & Society, history, history of psychiatry, insanity, madness

Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness

Author: Editorial 27th April 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Andrew Scull. The publishers say: “For more than two hundred years, disturbances of reason, cognition and emotion – the sort of things that were once called ‘madness’ – have been described and treated by the…
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Andrew Scull, asylum, books, history of psychiatry, insanity, psychiatry

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Author: Editorial 26th February 2018 0 Comments

In this book (a 1964 abridged edition of a book published in 1961) Michel Foucault: “… examines the archaeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part…
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18th century, books, Culture & Society, history, insanity, Mad Studies, madness, Michel Foucault, Middle Ages