Madness Is Civilization: When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980 Reviews

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Release: 2011-11-01
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0226771474
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America’s problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social conditions, psychiatrists were agents of repression, asylums were gulags for society’s undesirables, and mental illness was a concept with no medical basis.Madness Is Civilization explores the general consensus that societal ills—from dysfunctional marriage and family dynamics to the Vietnam War, racism, and sexism—were at the root of mental illness. Staub chronicles the surge in influence of socially attuned psychodynamic theories along with the rise of radical therapy and psychiatric survivors movements. He shows how the theories of antipsychiatry held unprecedented sway over an enormous range of medical, social, and political debates until a bruising backlash against these theories—part of the reaction to the perceived excesse Download Madness Is Civilization for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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