Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. Through the centuries, in poetry and in prose, in drama and in the visual arts, its depredations are on display for all to see. A whole industry has grown up, devoted to its management and suppression. Madness profoundly disturbs our common sense assumptions; threatens the social order, both symbolically and practically; creates almost unbearable disruptions in the texture of daily living; and turns our experience and our expectations upside down. Lunacy, insanity, psychosis, mental illness - whatever term we prefer, its referents are disturbances of reason, the passions, and human action that frighten, create chaos, and yet sometimes amuse; that mark a gulf between the common sense reality most of us embrace, and the discordant version some humans appear to experience. Social responses to madness, our interpretations of what madness is, and our notions of what is to be done about it have varied remarkably over the centuries. In this Very Short Introduction, Andrew Scull provides a provocative and entertaining examination of the social, cultural, medical, and artistic responses to mental disturbance across more than two millennia, concluding with some observations on the contemporary accounts of mental illness.
發表於2024-06-01
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圖書標籤: VSI 英語 心理學 曆史 Oxford 科普 literature Theory
浮誇,信息量真低。隻有最後一章尚且可讀。
評分現代精神病院以來的觀念史。從文學敘述到精神分析再到臨床神經科學,Scull描繪齣瘋癲研究從歐洲到美國的發展。值得一提的是作者的文筆,完美到可以拿來模仿的地步。
評分浮誇,信息量真低。隻有最後一章尚且可讀。
評分浮誇,信息量真低。隻有最後一章尚且可讀。
評分浮誇,信息量真低。隻有最後一章尚且可讀。
Madness 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載