SCULL ANDREW

Τρέλα
Η τρέλα είναι κάτι που μας τρομάζει και μας συναρπάζει όλους. Είναι μια λέξη οικουμενικά οικεία και μια συνθήκη που στοιχειώνει την ανθρώπινη φαντασία. Ανά τους αιώνες, στην ποίηση και στην πεζογραφία, στα θεατρικά έργα και στις εικαστικές τέχνες, οι ζημιές που προξενεί βρίσκονται σε κοινή θέα για όλους μας. Έχει ανθίσει μια ολόκληρη βιομηχανία αφιερωμένη στη διαχείριση και την καταστολή της. Κι όμως, η χρήση του όρου τρέλα δεν είναι πλέον αποδεκτή στις καθωσπρέπει συζητήσεις... (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)...
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(P/B) MADNESS
Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. Through the centuries, in poetry and in prose, in drama and in the visual arts, its depredations are on display for all to see. A whole industry has grown up, devoted to its management and suppression. Madness profoundly disturbs our common sense assumptions; threatens the social order, both symbolically and practically; creates almost unbearable disruptions in the texture of dai...
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(P/B) PSYCHIATRY AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull traces the rise of the field, the midcentury hegemony of psychoanalytic methods, and the paradigm's decline with the ascendance of biological and pharmaceutical approaches to mental illness. The book's historical sweep is broad, ranging from the age of the asylum to the rise of psychopharmacology and the dubio...
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(H/B) MADNESS IN CIVILIZATION
Today, mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a medical lens, but societies have also sought to make sense of it through religion or the supernatural, or by constructing psychological or social explanations in an effort to tame the demons of unreason. Madness in Civilization traces the long and complex history of this affliction and our attempts to treat it. Andrew Scull paints a vivid and often harrowing portrait of the different ways that cultures around the world have interpreted the seemingly irrational, psychotic and insan...
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(P/B) MADHOUSE - A TRAGIC TALE OF MEGALOMANIA AND MODERN MEDICINE
The rain that arrived before daybreak on Wednesday August 5, 1925, finally brought a measure of relief from the sweltering heat and humidity of an all-too-typical New Jersey summer. The storm's most violent downpour had abated by six that morning, to be replaced by a steady drizzle. The grey light softened the profile of the bleak stone and brick buildings that sprawled behind the wrought-iron fence marking the boundary of the state hospital. Anyone glancing through the hospital gates at that early hour would have observed a heavy-set, whi...
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