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Madness is Civilization
Michael E. Staub
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Description for Madness is Civilization
Hardcover. In the 1960s and '70s, the popular diagnosis for America's problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. This title examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to absurd social conditions. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; JKSM; MBPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
In the 1960s and '70s, the 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 absurd social conditions, psychiatrists were agents of repression, asylums were labor camps for society's undesirables, and mental illness was a concept with no medical basis. Staub explores the general consensus that societal ills - from family dynamics and childrearing to the Vietnam War and racism - were the roots of mental illness. He chronicles the surge in influence of psychodynamic theories ... Read more
In the 1960s and '70s, the 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 absurd social conditions, psychiatrists were agents of repression, asylums were labor camps for society's undesirables, and mental illness was a concept with no medical basis. Staub explores the general consensus that societal ills - from family dynamics and childrearing to the Vietnam War and racism - were the roots of mental illness. He chronicles the surge in influence of psychodynamic theories ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226771472
SKU
V9780226771472
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About Michael E. Staub
Michael E. Staub is professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York and the author of Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America.
Reviews for Madness is Civilization
"With creative new arguments about anti-psychiatry and its connections to intellectual radicalism on both the left and the right, this is a valuable contribution to American intellectual history." (David Herzberg, author of Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac)"