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100 1  Scull, Andrew,|d1946 
245 10 Madness in civilization :|ba cultural history of insanity,
       from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern 
       medicine /|cAndrew Scull. 
260    London :|bThames & Hudson Ltd,|c2015 
300    448 p.: |bill ;|c24 cm. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Confronting madness -- Madness in the ancient world -- The
       darkness and the dawn -- Melancholie and madnesse -- 
       Madhouses and mad-doctors -- Nerves and nervousness -- The
       great confinement -- Degeneration and despair -- The demi-
       fous -- Desperate remedies -- A meaningful interlude -- A 
       psychiatric revolution?. 
520 0  "The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the 
       commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the 
       shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't 
       let go--these are some of the traits we associate with 
       madness. 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 
       Civilization traces the long and complex history of this 
       affliction and our attempts to treat it. Beautifully 
       illustrated throughout, Madness in Civilization takes 
       readers from antiquity to today, painting a vivid and 
       often harrowing portrait of the different ways that 
       cultures around the world have interpreted and responded 
       to the seemingly irrational, psychotic, and insane. From 
       the Bible to Sigmund Freud, from exorcism to mesmerism, 
       from Bedlam to Victorian asylums, from the theory of 
       humors to modern pharmacology, the book explores the 
       manifestations and meanings of madness, its challenges and
       consequences, and our varied responses to it. It also 
       looks at how insanity has haunted the imaginations of 
       artists and writers and describes the profound influence 
       it has had on the arts, from drama, opera, and the novel 
       to drawing, painting, and sculpture." -- Publisher's 
       description 
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