Asylum Ways of Seeing

Name: Asylum Ways of Seeing
SKU: 9780812253573
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Author: Heather Murray
ISBN: 9780812253573

Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvHeather Murray

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Asylum Ways of Seeing is a cultural and intellectual history of people with mental illnesses in the twentieth-century United States. While acknowledging the fraught, and often violent, histories of American psychiatric hospitals, Heather Murray also suggests that it is in these hospitals that patients became more intense observers: they gave more conscious consideration to institutional and broader kinds of citizenship, to the nature and needs of communities versus those of individuals, to scientific modernity, and to human rights and solidarities among the suffering. All of these ideas have animated twentieth-century America, and, as Murray shows, have not just flowed into psychiatric hospitals but outward from them as well. These themes are especially clear within patients' intimate, creative, and political correspondence, writings, and drawings, as well as in hospital publications and films.This way of thinking and imagining contrasts with more common images of the patient-as passive, resigned, and absented from the world in the cloistered setting of the hospital-that have animated psychiatry over the course of the twentieth century. Asylum Ways of Seeing traces how it is that patient resignation went from being interpreted as wisdom in the early twentieth century, to being understood as a capitulation in scientific and political sources by mid-century, to being seen as a profound violation of selfhood and individual rights by the century's end. In so doing, it makes a call to reconsider the philosophical possibilities within resignation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-01-04
Mått152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt564 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN9780812253573

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Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
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"[A] unique history of patient cultures in 20th century America...Read as an interweaving of stories, events, and perspectives over historical time, [Asylum Ways of Seeing] offers the reader immersion in the complex intricacies of individual and collective human agency and its often unpredictable and irreversible consequences. Heather Murray is a masterful guide, who provides a wonderfully varied collection of perspectives that constantly challenges readers to expand and consider alternative ways of understanding the historical and personal stories she relates." (Journal of the History of Behavioral Science) "[A] carefully argued and meticulously documented exercise in intellectual and cultural history, a reconstruction of what [Murray] calls 'patient cultures,' which she understands as the sensibilities and emotional lives of psychiatry's twentieth-century subjects as they were shaped by institutions that both offered respite and served as sites of oppression. It is admirably attentive to nuance, human frailty, and individuals' shortcomings." (American Literary History) ""Highly recommended...Murray explores the somewhat unusual premise that asylums and other residential psychiatric institutions can be places of citizenship that prompt the development of different (i.e., alternative) versions of culture...This is an illuminating read with powerful implications for those working in such facilities, and a must read for anyone who is either advocating for or treating residents of such facilities today." (Choice)