Vieda Skultans

English Madness

Ideas on Insanity 1580-1890. Sprachen: Englisch. 21,6 cm / 14,0 cm / 1,3 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Hardcover), 190 Seiten
EAN 9781041253716
Veröffentlicht März 2026
Verlag/Hersteller Taylor & Francis

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In this book, originally published in 1979 and a sequel to Madness and Morals https://www.routledge.com/Madness-and-Morals-Ideas-on-Insanity-in-the-Nineteenth-Century/Skultans/p/book/9781032254975, Vieda Skultans presents an analysis of psychiatric ideas and practices, based on an examination of original texts on insanity. Two contrasting themes are emphasized: first, the Aristotelian idea which links madness to genius and, second, the view, derived from abnormal pathology, which sees madness as a defect of balance or imperfect harmony. The book investigates the relationship between social categories and diagnostic categories in psychiatry. It explores the view that the theory and practice of psychiatry are inevitably permeated with social values, pointing out that changes in psychiatric ideas and practices are related, at least partly, to changing values within society as a whole. Particular concepts of insanity are chosen for closer inspection, such as the Elizabethan idea of melancholy, eighteenth-century notions of the spleen and vapours, and the nineteenth-century diagnosis of masturbational insanity. The greater vulnerability of women to psychiatric disorder is explored, and the book concludes with an account of the growth of the asylum movement.

Portrait

Vieda Skultans is an emerita professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bristol where she worked from 1971 until 2009. Since 2009 she has taught Anthropology at the University of Latvia and at the Stradi-a Medical University in Riga. Her research and publications lie broadly in the fields of spirit possession, healing, psychiatric practice and the emergence of new diagnoses, social memory and life narratives. Her field work has been conducted in South Wales, Maharashtra, the Kathmandu Valley, Ukraine and Latvia.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction 2. Elizabethan Melancholy 3. The English Malady 4. The Moral Managers 5. Masturbational Insanity 6. Femininity and Illness 7. Pauper Lunacy 8. The Tyranny of Organization 9. Conclusion.

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