Sex, religion, and the making of modern madness
Subtitle: the Eberbach Asylum and German society, 1815-1849
By: Ann Goldberg.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Eberbach (Asylum) -- History -- 19th century; Psychiatry -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Mental illness -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Psychiatric hospitals -- Germany -- Sociological aspects; Psychotherapist and patient -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Description: "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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and index.