Mind-forg'd Manacles by Roy Porter

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Mind-forg'd Manacles by Roy Porter

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Summary

An exploration of the attitudes towards, and treatments for, madness in the age before the mass asylum and the emergence of the psychiatric profession. It explores early social policy towards the insane and how this led to the piecemeal development of lunatic asylums.

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Mind-forg'd Manacles by Roy Porter

"Mind-Forg'd Manacles" explores attitudes towards and treatments for madness in the age before the mass asylum and the emergence of the psychiatric profession. It aims to show how vernacular culture and Christian doctrine had traditionally offered explanations of insanity and how these views were displaced by the secularizing mind of the Enlightenment. It explores early social policy towards the insane and how this led to the piecemeal development of lunatic asylums. It also looks at the theoretical and practical aspects of psychiatric therapies.

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ISBN 13 9780140124781
ISBN 10 0140124780
Title Mind-forg'd Manacles
Author Roy Porter
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 1990-05-14
Number of pages 432
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