Madness and Civilization

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Examines the social, cultural, and institutional aspects of the history of madness in modern Europe and America. Topics include the institutional and therapeutic reforms of the revolutionary era; the rise of theories of degeneration, hysteria and neurasthenia; psychoanalysis; war neurosis and military psychiatry; psychiatry under the Nazis; psychiatry and the legacy of imperialism; the anti-psychiatry movement; and contemporary bio-psychiatry.