Chicken Soup for the Sister's Soul 2 by Jack Canfield

Chicken Soup for the Sister's Soul 2 by Jack Canfield

How did the affliction we now know as insanity move from a religious phenomenon to a medical one? How did social class, gender, and ethnicity affect the experience of mental trauma and the way psychiatrists diagnosed and treated patients? In answering these questions, this important volume mines the rich and unusually detailed records of one of Germany's first modern insane asylums, the Eberbach Asylum in the duchy of Nassau. It is a book on the historical relationship between madness and modernity that both builds upon and challenges Michel Foucault's landmark work on this topic, a bold study that gives generous consideration to madness from the patient's perspective while also shedding new light on sexuality, politics, and antisemitism in nineteenth-century Germany.

Drawing on the case records of several hundred asylum patients, Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness reconstructs the encounters of state officials and medical practitioners with peasant madness and deviancy during a transitional period in the history of both Germany and psychiatry. As author Ann Goldberg explains, this era witnessed the establishment of psychiatry as a legitimate medical specialty during a time of social upheaval, as Germany underwent the shift toward a capitalist order and the modern state. Focusing on such illnesses as religious madness, nymphomania, and masturbatory insanity, as well as the construct of Jewishness, she probes the daily encounters in which psychiatric categories were applied, experienced, and resisted within the settings of family, village, and insane asylum.

The book is a model of microhistory, breaking new ground in the historiography of psychiatry as it synthetically applies approaches from the history of everyday life, anthropology, poststructuralism, and feminist studies. In contrast to earlier, anecdotal studies of the asylum patient, Goldberg employs diagnostic patterns to illuminate the ways in which madness--both in psychiatric practice and in the experience of patients--was structured by gender, class, and race. She thus examines both the social basis of rural mental trauma in the Vorm rz and the political and medical practices that sought to refashion this experience.

This study sheds light on a range of issues concerning gender, religion, class relations, ethnicity, and state-building. It will appeal to students and scholars of a number of disciplines.

Jack Canfield is the co-author of the #1 New York Times best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has sold more than 500 million copies in 47 languages. He is a featured teacher in the movies The Secret and Tapping the Source; and has appeared on more than 1,000 radio and television programs. Jack is also the CEO of the Canfield Training Group and the founder of the Transformational Leadership Council. He lives with his wife, Inga, in Santa Barbara, California. Website: www.JackCanfield.com Pamela Bruner is a Business Success Coach, author, speaker, and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) expert. After removing her own marketing fears to go from $0 to $1 million in two-and-a-half years, Pamela specializes in working with transformational entrepreneurs to build six- and seven-figure businesses by removing their fears and blocks around marketing and sales. She is the co-author of EFT & Beyond: Cutting Edge Techniques for Personal Transformation. Website: www.MakeYourSuccessEasy.com

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ISBN 13	9780757305511
ISBN 10	0757305512
Title	Chicken Soup for the Sister's Soul 2
Author	Jack Canfield
Series	Chicken Soup For The Soul Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Health Communications
Year published	2006-10-01
Number of pages	300
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