Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health

Greg Eghigian is Associate Professor of Modern History at Penn State University. His most recent book is The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany (2015). He is presently writing a book on the history of the UFO phenomenon.

• List of figuresList of contributorsIntroduction to the history of madness and mental healthGreg EghigianPart I. Madness in the ancient and medieval worlds1. Representations of madmen and madness in Jewish sources from the pre-exilic to the Roman-Byzantine period Madalina Vartejanu-Joubert2. Ancient Greek and Roman traditions Chiara Thumiger3. Madness in the Middle AgesClaire Trenery and Peregrine HordenPart II. Professions, institutions, and tools4. Healers and healing in the early modern health care marketElizabeth Mellyn5. The asylum, hospital, and clinic Andrew Scull6. The epistemology and classification of 'madness' since the eighteenth centuryGerman E. Berrios and Ivana MarkováPart III. Beyond medicine7. Psychiatry and religionRhodri Hayward8. Madness in Western literature and the artsIlya Vinitsky9. Psychiatry and its visual culture, c. 1800–1960Andreas KillenPart IV. Global dimensions, colonial and post-colonial settings10. Madness and psychiatry in Latin America’s long nineteenth centuryManuella Meyer11. Histories of madness in South AsiaWaltraud Ernst12. Mad AfricaSally Swartz13. Voices of madness in Japan: narrative devices at the psychiatric bedside and in modern literatureAkihito SuzukiPart V. Perspectives and experiences14. The straightjacket, the bed, and the pill: material culture and madnessBenoît Majerus15. From the perspectives of mad peopleGeoffrey Reaume16. Dementia: confusion at the borderlands of aging and madnessJesse BallengerPart VI. Maladies, disorders, and treatments17. Passions and moodsLaura Hirshbein18. PsychosisRichard Noll19. Somatic treatmentsJonathan Sadowsky20. Psychotherapy in society: historical reflectionsSonu Shamdasani21. The antidepressant era revisited: towards differentiation and patient-empowerment in diagnosis and treatment Toine PietersIndex

"This wide-ranging collection examines the history of madness and mental illness from antiquity to contemporary pharmacology, broadening our understanding both geographically and chronologically. The authors attend carefully to the specificity of each historical context with interdisciplinary approaches that draw on the history of medicine, anthropology, emotion, law, sociology, everyday life, literature, philosophy, and religion. These accessible essays provide a valuable perspective on the lived experience of mental disorder and its interpretation relevant to scholars and students in the field and beyond."Dana Rabin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA