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

Michael E. Staub

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Description:In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for AmericaOCOs 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 societyOCOs undesirables, and mental illness was a concept with no medical basis."Madness Is Civilization" explores the general consensus that societal illsOCofrom dysfunctional marriage and family dynamics to the Vietnam War, racism, and sexismOCowere 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 theoriesOCopart of the reaction to the perceived excesses and self-absorptions of the 1960sOCoeffectively distorted them into caricatures. Throughout, Staub reveals that at stake in these debates of psychiatry and politics was nothing less than how to think about the institution of the family, the nature of the self, and the prospects for, and limits of, social change.aThe first study to describe how social diagnostic thinking emerged, "Madness Is Civilization "casts new light on the politics of the postwar era."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Madness Is Civilization: When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948 -1980. To get started finding Madness Is Civilization: When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948 -1980, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 265

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Release: 2014

ISBN: 0226771490

Description: In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for AmericaOCOs 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 societyOCOs undesirables, and mental illness was a concept with no medical basis."Madness Is Civilization" explores the general consensus that societal illsOCofrom dysfunctional marriage and family dynamics to the Vietnam War, racism, and sexismOCowere 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 theoriesOCopart of the reaction to the perceived excesses and self-absorptions of the 1960sOCoeffectively distorted them into caricatures. Throughout, Staub reveals that at stake in these debates of psychiatry and politics was nothing less than how to think about the institution of the family, the nature of the self, and the prospects for, and limits of, social change.aThe first study to describe how social diagnostic thinking emerged, "Madness Is Civilization "casts new light on the politics of the postwar era."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Madness Is Civilization: When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948 -1980. To get started finding Madness Is Civilization: When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948 -1980, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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