Michael E. Staub
Madness Is Civilization: When The Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980
- ISBN 13:
- 9780226214634
- author:
- Michael E. Staub
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Pages:
- 264
- Dimensions:
- 15.2 x 1.8 x 22.9 cm
- Genre:
- Health, Family & Lifestyle, Psychology & Psychiatry, Social & Developmental Psychology
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The diagnosis that society was becoming mad was a popular view in America's 1960s and 1970s. In this intellectual history, Michael E. Staub examines how psychiatrists were seen as agents of repression and mental illness was linked to social conditions. Staub explores the rise of socially attuned psychodynamic theories and radical therapy, which challenged traditional views of psychiatry. He shows how these ideas influenced medical, social, and political debates until a backlash against them distorted their meaning. At stake in these debates were fundamental questions about the institution of the family, the nature of the self, and the prospects for social change. This book casts new light on the politics of the postwar era by revealing how social diagnostic thinking emerged as a way to address societal problems.
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