Madness : a brief history
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Roy Porter
- ناشر : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2002
- شابک / ISBN : 9780192802668
Description
1. Introduction -- 2. Gods and demons -- 3. Madness rationalized -- 4. Fools and folly -- 5. Locking up the mad -- 6. The rise of psychiatry -- 7. The mad -- 8. The century of psychoanalysis? -- 9. Conclusion : modern times, ancient problems?
A history of "madness" offers readers a sweeping history of mental illness and its treatment, from holes drilled in five-thousand-year-old skulls to the latest in modern psychotropic drugs.
