The Resource Madness is civilization : when the diagnosis was social, 1948 -1980, Michael E. Staub
Madness is civilization : when the diagnosis was social, 1948 -1980, Michael E. Staub
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- Summary
- In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America's problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social conditions, psychiatrists were agents of repression, asylums were gulags for society's undesirables, and mental illness was a concept with no medical basis. Madness Is Civilization explores the general consensus that societal ills-from dysfunctional marriage and family dynamics to the Vietnam War, racism, and sexism-were at the root of mental illness. Staub chronicles the surge in influence of socially attuned psychodynamic theories along with the rise of radical therapy and psychiatric survivors movements. He shows how the theories of antipsychiatry held unprecedented sway over an enormous range of medical, social, and political debates until a bruising backlash against these theories-part of the reaction to the perceived excesses and self-absorptions of the 1960s-effectively distorted them into caricatures. Throughout, Staub reveals that at stake in these debates of psychiatry and politics was nothing less than how to think about the institution of the family, the nature of the self, and the prospects for, and limits of, social change. The first study to describe how social diagnostic thinking emerged, Madness Is Civilization casts new light on the politics of the postwar era
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource ([xii], 252 pages)
- Contents
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- When the diagnosis was social
- Society as the patient
- Enough to drive anybody crazy
- Suffering from contingencies
- The therapeutic state
- The revolution in feeling
- The insanity trip
- Person envy
- A fashionable kind of slander
- Isbn
- 9780226771496
- Label
- Madness is civilization : when the diagnosis was social, 1948 -1980
- Title
- Madness is civilization
- Title remainder
- when the diagnosis was social, 1948 -1980
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael E. Staub
- Subject
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- Electronic books
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases | Nervous System (incl. Brain)
- History, 20th Century
- Krankheitsbegriff
- Machtmissbrauch
- Mental Disorders -- history
- Mental illness -- United States -- Sociological aspects
- Psychiatrie
- Psychische Störung
- Desintegration
- Social Conditions
- Social conditions
- Soziale Kontrolle
- USA
- Unangepasstheit
- United States
- United States
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Since 1945
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America's problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social conditions, psychiatrists were agents of repression, asylums were gulags for society's undesirables, and mental illness was a concept with no medical basis. Madness Is Civilization explores the general consensus that societal ills-from dysfunctional marriage and family dynamics to the Vietnam War, racism, and sexism-were at the root of mental illness. Staub chronicles the surge in influence of socially attuned psychodynamic theories along with the rise of radical therapy and psychiatric survivors movements. He shows how the theories of antipsychiatry held unprecedented sway over an enormous range of medical, social, and political debates until a bruising backlash against these theories-part of the reaction to the perceived excesses and self-absorptions of the 1960s-effectively distorted them into caricatures. Throughout, Staub reveals that at stake in these debates of psychiatry and politics was nothing less than how to think about the institution of the family, the nature of the self, and the prospects for, and limits of, social change. The first study to describe how social diagnostic thinking emerged, Madness Is Civilization casts new light on the politics of the postwar era
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Staub, Michael E
- Dewey number
- 362.196/89
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RC455
- LC item number
- .S79 2011eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- 2011 K-733
- WM 11.1
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mental illness
- United States
- Mental Disorders
- Social Conditions
- History, 20th Century
- United States
- HEALTH & FITNESS
- Social conditions
- United States
- Desintegration
- Krankheitsbegriff
- Machtmissbrauch
- Psychiatrie
- Psychische Störung
- Soziale Kontrolle
- Unangepasstheit
- USA
- Label
- Madness is civilization : when the diagnosis was social, 1948 -1980, Michael E. Staub
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- online resource
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- multicolored
- Content category
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- When the diagnosis was social -- Society as the patient -- Enough to drive anybody crazy -- Suffering from contingencies -- The therapeutic state -- The revolution in feeling -- The insanity trip -- Person envy -- A fashionable kind of slander
- Control code
- 754216103
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource ([xii], 252 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780226771496
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- c
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- 9122ccb2-3cdd-4672-9fb4-75f4c65428f7
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- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)754216103
- Label
- Madness is civilization : when the diagnosis was social, 1948 -1980, Michael E. Staub
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- When the diagnosis was social -- Society as the patient -- Enough to drive anybody crazy -- Suffering from contingencies -- The therapeutic state -- The revolution in feeling -- The insanity trip -- Person envy -- A fashionable kind of slander
- Control code
- 754216103
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource ([xii], 252 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780226771496
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 9122ccb2-3cdd-4672-9fb4-75f4c65428f7
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)754216103
Subject
- Electronic books
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases | Nervous System (incl. Brain)
- History, 20th Century
- Krankheitsbegriff
- Machtmissbrauch
- Mental Disorders -- history
- Mental illness -- United States -- Sociological aspects
- Psychiatrie
- Psychische Störung
- Desintegration
- Social Conditions
- Social conditions
- Soziale Kontrolle
- USA
- Unangepasstheit
- United States
- United States
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Since 1945
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