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Madness Is Civilization
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Madness is civilization : when the diagnosis was social, 1948-1980
Linked Data More info about Linked Data. Home About Help Search. Privacy Policy Terms and Conditions. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to absurd social conditions, psychiatrists were agents of repression, asylums were labour camps for society's undesirables, and mental illness was a concept with no medical basis.
Staub explores the general consensus that societal ills - from family dynamics and childrearing to the Vietnam War and racism - were the roots of mental illness.
Madness is Civilization: When the Diagnosis was Social, 1948-1980
He chronicles the surge in influence of psychodynamic theories advanced by Theodor Adorno, R. Laing, Thomas Szasz, and others, along with the rise of radical therapy and psychiatric survivors' movements. He shows how these theories of anti-psychiatry held unprecedented sway over an enormous range of medical, social, and political debates until a bruising backlash against these theories effectively distorted them into caricatures.
- Madness Is Civilization.
- Madness Is Civilization: When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948–1980.
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The first study to explain how social diagnostic thinking emerged, 'Madness is civilization' casts new light on the politics of the postwar era. Contents When the diagnosis was social Society as the patient Enough to drive anybody crazy Suffering from contingencies The therapeutic state The revolution in feeling The insanity trip Person envy A fashionable kind of slander.
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Part Two The Revolution in Feeling. End Matter Acknowledgments Index.