Madness and democracy : the modern psychiatric universe /

Madness and democracy : the modern psychiatric universe /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gauchet, Marcel.
Uniform title:	Pratique de l'esprit humain. English
Imprint:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1999.
Description:	xxvi, 323 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New French thought
Subject:	Psychiatric hospital care. Power (Social sciences) Mental illness -- Social aspects. Mental Disorders -- therapy. Hospitals, Psychiatric. Power (Psychology) Psychotherapy -- methods. Mental illness -- Social aspects. Power (Social sciences) Psychiatric hospital care.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3853493

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Other authors / contributors:	Swain, Gladys, 1945-
ISBN:	0691033722 (cl : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-315) and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Editors' Note
Madness and Democracy
Introduction
Abstract I. The Moment of Origin
Part 1. 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. Impossible Power
Chapter IV. A Socializing Machine
Abstract III. Crisis, Agony, and Repetition
Abstract IV. Esquirol at la SalpêtrièRe
Part 2. The Passions as a Sketch of a General Theory of Mental Alienation
Abstract V. Esquirol in 1805
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