Madness in Civilization A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine / Andrew Scull.
"The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go--these are some of the traits we associate with madness. Today, mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a m...
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Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ [u.a.] :
Princeton Univ. Press,
2016.
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Edition: | paperback edition. |
Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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