Table Of ContentTHE ROUTLEDGE HISTORY OF MADNESS
AND MENTAL HEALTH
The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health explores the history and historiography
of madness from the ancient and medieval worlds to the present day. Global in scope, it
includes case studies from Africa, Asia, and South America as well as Europe and North
America, drawing together the latest scholarship and source material in this growing
field and allowing for fresh comparisons to be made across time and space.
Thematically organised and written by leading academics, chapters discuss broad
topics such as the representation of madness in literature and the visual arts, the
material culture of madness, the perpetual difficulty of creating a classification system
for madness and mental health, madness within life histories, the increased globali-
sation of knowledge and treatment practices, and the persistence of spiritual and
supernatural conceptualisations of experiences associated with madness. This volume
also examines the challenges involved in analysing primary sources in this area and
how key themes such as class, gender, and race have influenced the treatment and
diagnosis of madness throughout history.
Chronologically and geographically wide-ranging, and providing a fascinating
overview of the current state of the field, this is essential reading for all students of
the history of madness, mental health, psychiatry, and medicine.
Greg Eghigian is Associate Professor of Modern History at Penn State University. His
most recent book is The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict
in Twentieth-Century Germany (2015). He is presently writing a book on the history of
the UFO phenomenon.
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THE ROUTLEDGE HISTORY
OF MADNESS AND
MENTAL HEALTH
Edited by Greg Eghigian
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016050178| ISBN 9781138781603
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Subjects: LCSH: Mental illness—History.
| Mental health—History. | Psychiatry—History.
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CONTENTS
List of figures viii
List of contributors ix
Introduction to the history of madness and mental health 1
GREG EGHIGIAN
PART I
Madness in the ancient and medieval worlds 17
1 Representations of madmen and madness in Jewish sources
from the pre-exilic to the Roman-Byzantine period 19
MADALINA VARTEJANU-JOUBERT
2 Ancient Greek and Roman traditions 42
CHIARA THUMIGER
3 Madness in the Middle Ages 62
CLAIRE TRENERY AND PEREGRINE HORDEN
PART II
Professions, institutions, and tools 81
4 Healers and healing in the early modern health care market 83
ELIZABETH MELLYN
5 The asylum, hospital, and clinic 101
ANDREW SCULL
6 The epistemology and classification of ‘madness’ since
the eighteenth century 115
GERMAN E. BERRIOS AND IVANA S. MARKOVÁ
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CONTENTS
PART III
Beyond medicine 135
7 Psychiatry and religion 137
RHODRI HAYWARD
8 Madness in Western literature and the arts 153
ILYA VINITSKY
9 Psychiatry and its visual culture in the modern era 172
ANDREAS KILLEN
PART IV
Global dimensions, colonial, and post-colonial settings 191
10 Madness and psychiatry in Latin America’s long
nineteenth century 193
MANUELLA MEYER
11 Histories of madness in South Asia 210
WALTRAUD ERNST
12 Mad Africa 229
SALLY SWARTZ
13 Voices of madness in Japan: narrative devices at the
psychiatric bedside and in modern literature 245
AKIHITO SUZUKI
PART V
Perspectives and experiences 261
14 The straitjacket, the bed, and the pill: material culture
and madness 263
BENOÎT MAJERUS
15 From the perspectives of mad people 277
GEOFFREY REAUME
16 Dementia: confusion at the borderlands of aging
and madness 297
JESSE BALLENGER
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CONTENTS
PART VI
Maladies, disorders, and treatments 313
17 Passions and moods 315
LAURA HIRSHBEIN
18 Psychosis 331
RICHARD NOLL
19 Somatic treatments 350
JONATHAN SADOWSKY
20 Psychotherapy in society: historical reflections 363
SONU SHAMDASANI
21 The antidepressant era revisited: towards differentiation and
patient-empowerment in diagnosis and treatment 379
TOINE PIETERS
Index 391
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FIGURES
8.1 Nikolai Berg, Konstantin Batiushkov in 1847 154
8.2 J. H. W. Tischbein, Goethe am Fenster der römischen Wohnung am Corso 155
8.3 Orest Kiprensky, Konstantin Batiushkov 156
8.4 Vassily Perov, The Blessed One 163
8.5 Francisco de Goya, The Madhouse 164
8.6 Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I 166
9.1 The assassin Charles Guiteau 175
9.2 A manic patient (Esquirol) 176
9.3 Charcot’s patient Albertine 178
9.4 Hypnotic treatment of patient with “clown-like disturbances
of movement caused by shock” 181
9.5 Cinematic treatment of woman suffering hysterical amnesia 183
9.6 Still from the Nazi film Erbkrank (1936) 185
9.7 Still from Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor (1963) 187
14.1 The straitjacket and its accessories 266
14.2 Bed for senile and mentally ill patients 268
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CONTRIBUTORS
Greg Eghigian is Associate Professor of Modern History at Penn State University. His
most recent book is The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict
in Twentieth-Century Germany (2015). He is presently writing a book on the history of
the UFO phenomenon.
Jesse Ballenger is author of Self, Senility and Alzheimer’s Disease in Modern America: A
History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) and co-editor of Concepts of Alzheimer
Disease: Biological, Clinical and Cultural Perspectives (Johns Hopkins University Press,
2000) and Treating Dementia: Do We Have a Pill for It? (Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2009). He is an associate teaching professor in the Health Administration
Department at Drexel University, where he teaches bioethics and health care history.
German E. Berrios is Emeritus Chair of the Epistemology of Psychiatry and Life
Fellow at Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK.
Waltraud Ernst is Professor in the History of Medicine, 1700–2000 at Oxford Brookes
University in the UK. She specialises in the history of madness and mental health in
South Asia. Her publications include Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry (Anthem,
2013) and Mad Tales from the Raj (Anthem, 1991, 2010) and a number of edited books,
such as Work, Psychiatry and Society (University of Manchester Press, 2016), Transnational
Psychiatries (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), Plural Medicine, Tradition and
Modernity (Routledge, 2002) and Race, Science and Medicine (Routledge, 1999).
Rhodri Hayward is a Reader in the History of the Human Sciences at Queen Mary,
University of London and a co-founder of the Queen Mary Centre for the History
of the Emotions. He has published on the history of dreams, Pentecostalism,
demonology, cybernetics, and the relations between psychiatry and primary care.
His current research examines the rise and political implications of psychiatric epi-
demiology in modern Britain. His book Resisting History: Popular Religion and the
Invention of the Unconscious was published by Manchester University Press in 2007
and The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care by Bloomsbury in 2014.
Laura Hirshbein is a historian and psychiatrist at the University of Michigan. Her
published works include American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth
Century (Rutgers University Press, 2009) and Smoking Privileges: Psychiatry, the Mentally
Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America (Rutgers University Press, 2015).
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