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Social Order/Mental Disorder

Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective

By Andrew Scull

Published June 1st 1989 by Routledge

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Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social responses to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through to the twentieth century.

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`Books like this are in danger of giving sociology a good name.' - Sunday Times

Contents

1. Introduction - Reflections on the Historical Sociology of Psychiatry 2. Humanitarianism or Control? Some Observations on the Historiography of Anglo-American Psychiatry 3. The Domestication of Madness 4. Moral Treatment Reconsidered 5. The Discovery of the Asylum Revisited: Lunacy Reform in the New American Republic 6. From Madness to Mental Illness: Medical Men as Moral Entrepreneurs 7. John Conolly: A Victorian Psychiatric Career 8. A Convenient Place to Get Rid of Inconvenient People: The Victorian Lunatic Asylum 9. Was Insanity Increasing? 10. Progressive Dreams, Progressive Nightmares: Social Control in Twentieth Century America 11. Sex and Madness 12. Cyclical Trends in Psychiatric Practice: The Case of Bettleheim and Tuke 13. The Theory and Practice of Civil Commitment 14. The Asylum as Community or the Community as Asylum: Paradoxes and Contradictions of Mental Health Care

Name: Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective (Hardback)Routledge 
Description: By Andrew Scull. Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social responses to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through to the twentieth...
Categories: Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology - Adult