Description
Book SynopsisThis important book provides an engaging, critical overview of the social, political and cultures filters through mental illness has been understood through the ages.
Trade Review'This book is an exceptional pedagogical tool for teaching about madness both historically and critically. It provides a unique in-depth overview of the history and key issues of understanding mental health. This book is both contextual and critical – a much-needed teaching resource.' – Katherine Hubbard, University of Surrey, UK
Table of ContentsAknowledgemets
Preface
Part I: The history
1. Prehistoric perspectives: Excising Demons
2. Religious perspectives: Madness in sacred texts
3. Ancient Greek perspectives: Madness in the blood
4. Medieval perspectives: Madness and witchcraft
5. The age of asylums: The mass containment of the mad
6. The medicalisation of madness: The rise of psychiatry
7. The classification of madness: A history of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Part II: The concepts
8. Biological perspectives and treatments
9. Psychoanalytical perspectives and treatments
10. Behavioural perspectives and treatments
11. Cognitive perspectives and treatments
Part III: The controversies
12. Defining madness
13. A critique analysis of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
14. Race and mental health services
15. Class in counselling and psychotherapy
16. The pharmaceutical industry
Index
