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  Madness: A Brief History (Paperback) By (author) Roy Porter

  

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  Short Description for MadnessThis work explores what we really mean by "madness", covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac.
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Published: 08 May 2003
  • Format: Paperback 254 pages
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  • Categories: History Of Ideas | Psychology | Abnormal Psychology | History Of Medicine | Neurology & Clinical Neurophysiology | Psychiatry | General & World History
  • ISBN 13: 9780192802675 ISBN 10: 0192802674
  • Sales rank: 38,336

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• This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac. The origins of current debates about how we define and deal with insanity are examined through eyewitness accounts of those treating patients, writers, artists, and the mad themselves.