{"product_id":"madness-is-civilization-when-the-diagnosis-was-social-19481980-9780226214634","title":"Madness Is Civilization When the Diagnosis Was","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores the general consensus that societal ills were at the root of mental illness. This book chronicles the surge in influence of socially attuned psychodynamic theories along with the rise of radical therapy and psychiatric survivors' movements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A valuable contribution to the American intellectual history of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. For older readers, Staub provides a well-researched and insightful recreation of the debates that dominated a bygone period. For younger ones, he is a thoughtful guide to the general intellectual energy that the study of sanity and madness once provided. For both cohorts, he shows how much has been lost because of the absence of a genuinely social view of mental illness in current discourse about normality and abnormality. Staub's highly readable synthesis of a wide range of material is the single best source for a thoughtful discussion of the 'anti-psychiatry' movement that at the same time is so chronologically close yet so intellectually distant from our current era.\" (Allan V. Horwitz, Social History of Medicine)\"","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49399966171479,"sku":"9780226214634","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226214634.jpg?v=1730469296","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/madness-is-civilization-when-the-diagnosis-was-social-19481980-9780226214634","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}