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OverviewThe history of psychiatric institutions and the psychiatric profession is by now familiar: asylums multiplied in nineteenth-century England and psychiatry established itself as a medical specialty around the same time. We are, however, largely ignorant about madness at home in this key period: what were the family's attitudes toward its insane member, what were patient's lives like when they remained at home? Until now, most accounts have suggested that the family and community gradually abdicated responsibility for taking care of mentally ill members to the doctors who ran the asylums. However, this provocatively argued study, painting a fascinating picture of how families viewed and managed madness, suggests that the family actually played a critical role in caring for the insane and in the development of psychiatry itself. Akihito Suzuki's richly detailed social history includes several fascinating case histories, looks closely at little studied source material including press reports of formal legal declarations of insanity, or Commissions of Lunacy, and also provides an illuminating historical perspective on our own day and age, when the mentally ill are mainly treated in home and community. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Akihito SuzukiPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 13 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780520245808ISBN 10: 0520245806 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 13 March 2006 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Psychiatry in the Private and the Public Spheres 1. Commissions of Lunacy: Background, Sources, and Content 2. The Structure of Psychiatric Practice 3. The Problems of Liberty and Property 4. Managing Lunatics within the Domestic Sphere 5. Destabilizing the Domestic Psychiatric Regime 6. Public Authorities and the Ambiguities of the Lunatic at Home Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsA brilliant and profoundly original book, one of the most important contributions to the history of psychiatry in the past decade. - Andrew Scull, co-author of Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London Suzuki's sophisticated and revealing account is a persuasive reminder that the family's recent involvement in mental health care policy-making is nothing new. As he shows, in more ways than one, madness does indeed begin at home. - Ian Dowbiggin, author of A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God and Medicine ""A brilliant and profoundly original book, one of the most important contributions to the history of psychiatry in the past decade."" - Andrew Scull, co-author of Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London ""Suzuki's sophisticated and revealing account is a persuasive reminder that the family's recent involvement in mental health care policy-making is nothing new. As he shows, in more ways than one, madness does indeed begin at home."" - Ian Dowbiggin, author of A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God and Medicine"" Author InformationAkihito Suzuki is Professor of History in the School of Economics at Keio University, Japan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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