Madness and Democracy : : The Modern Psychiatric Universe /

Madness and Democracy : : The Modern Psychiatric Universe / / Marcel Gauchet, Gladys Swain.

How the insane asylum became a laboratory of democracy is revealed in this provocative look at the treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century France. Political thinkers reasoned that if government was to rest in the hands of individuals, then measures should be taken to understand the deepe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
VerfasserIn:
Gauchet, Marcel,
Swain, Gladys,
TeilnehmendeR:
Porter, Catherine.
Seigel, Jerrold E.
MitwirkendeR:
Seigel, Jerrold,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©1999
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
Series:New French Thought Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Editors' Note
  • Introduction
  • Abstract I: The Moment of Origin
  • Part One: Advent, Apotheosis, and Failure of the Asylum Establishment
  • Abstract II
  • Chapter I. La Salpêtrière, or The Double Birth of the Asylum
  • Chapter II. The Politics of the Asylum
  • Chapter III.1 Impossible Power
  • Chapter IV. A Socializing Machine
  • Abstract III: Crisis, Agony, and Repetition
  • Abstract IV: Esquirol at La Salpêtrière
  • Part Two: The Passions as a Sketch of a General Theory of Mental Alienation
  • Abstract V: Esqirol in 1805
  • Abstract VI: The Clinical Resolution
  • Abstract VII: Between the Will to Madness and Brain Lesions
  • Abstract VIII: What the Passions Make It Possible to Think (Beginning)
  • Chapter V. What the Passions Make It Possible to Think
  • Chapter VI. Reducing Insanity: The Mirror of Alterity
  • Abstract IX: Approaches to Healing; How to Speak to the Insane
  • Chapter VII. The Society of Individuals and the Institution of Speech
  • Chapter VIII.The Conquest of Dissymmetry
  • Chapter IX. Openings and Aporia of Moral Treatment
  • Epilogue: Social Divide, Division of the Subject, Mad Rupture
  • Notes
  • List of Works Cited
  • Index

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