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Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by sociologist Andrew Scull is a critical history of two hundred years of treatment of mental disorders in the United States. From the "birth of the asylum" in the 1830s to the drug trials and genetic studies of the 2000s, Scull catalogues efforts by psychoanalysts ...
Doom Patrol, a comic book series originating in 1963. During Grant Morrison's 1989 – 1993 run it included the multiple personality affected Crazy Jane and several other characters either insane or in possession of greater truths. American Psycho. 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis.
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Abridged; translated by R. Howard. London: Tavistock (1965) History of Madness. Unabridged; edited by Jean Khalfa, translated Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa. London: Routledge (2006) 1963 Naissance de la clinique – une archéologie du regard médical
The book Insanity in Ancient and Modern Life (1878), followed by The History of the Insane in the British Isles (1882) count as some of his most influential works. [38] In 1884, during his visit in America, he also collected material for his book The Insane in the United States and Canada.
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (French: Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique, 1961) [i] is an examination by Michel Foucault of the evolution of the meaning of madness in the cultures and laws, politics, philosophy, and medicine of Europe—from the Middle Ages until the end of the 18th century—and a critique of the idea of ...
By the 1870s in North America, officials who ran Lunatic Asylums renamed them Insane Asylums. By the late century, the term "asylum" had lost its original meaning as a place of refuge, retreat or safety , and was associated with abuses that had been widely publicized in the media, including by ex-patient organization the Alleged Lunatics ...
Prairie madness is not a clinical condition; rather, it is a pervasive subject in writings of fiction and non-fiction from the period to describe a fairly common phenomenon. It was described by Eugene Virgil Smalley in 1893: "an alarming amount of insanity occurs in the new Prairie States among farmers and their wives." [1] [2]
Anomalist Books. Craft, Amos Norton. (1881). Epidemic Delusions: Containing an Exposé of the Superstitions and Frauds which Underlie Some Ancient and Modern Delusions, Including Especial Reference to Modern Spiritualism. New York: Phillips & Hunt. Fleischer, Jeff. (2011). The Latest Craze: A Short History of Mass Hysterias. Fall River Press.