1st Edition
Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness
By Marco Innamorati
Copyright 2025
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
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Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness focuses on a critical question in the history of psychiatry: to what extent does psychopathology describe phenomena that exist before or beyond their description? Marco Innamorati probes the view that any description of a psychopathological phenomenon is, to a significant extent, the result of a construction by the subject... Read more
Introduction
1. Conversion Hysteria
2. Tarantism
3. Demonic Possession
4. Dual and Multiple Personalities
5. Mad Travellers
6. Sluggish Schizophrenia
7. Shamanism and Arctic Hysteria
8. Amok
9. Hikikomori
10. The Misunderstanding of Homosexuality as a Form of Pathology
Some Brief Final Considerations
Bibliography
Biography
Marco Innamorati is full professor of History and Philosophy of Scientific Concepts and Dynamic and Developmental Psychology at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy. He already published for Routledge A Critical History of Psychotherapy, Volume 1 and 2 (with Renato Foschi).
