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Author(s): Marcel Gauchet; Gladys Swain; Catherine Porter; Jerrold E. Seigel
ISBN(s): 9781400822874, 1400822874
Edition: Core Textbook
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Year: 2012
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1400822874 
ISBN 13: 9781400822874
Author: Marcel Gauchet, Gladys Swain, Catherine Porter, Jerrold E Seigel

How the insane asylum became a laboratory of democracy is revealed in this provocative look at the treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century France. Political thinkers reasoned that if government was to rest in the hands of individuals, then measures should be taken to understand the deepest reaches of the self, including the state of madness. Marcel Gauchet and Gladys Swain maintain that the asylum originally embodied the revolutionary hope of curing all the insane by saving the glimmer of sanity left in them. Their analysis of why this utopian vision failed ultimately constitutes both a powerful argument for liberalism and a direct challenge to Michel Foucault’s indictment of liberal institutions. The creation of an artificial environment was meant to encourage the mentally ill to live as social beings, in conditions that resembled as much as possible those prevailing in real life. The asylum was therefore the first instance of a modern utopian community in which a scientifically designed environment was supposed to achieve complete control over the minds of a whole category of human beings. Gauchet and Swain argue that the social domination of the inner self, far from being the hidden truth of emancipation, represented the failure of its overly optimistic beginnings. Madness and Democracy combines rich details of nineteenth-century asylum life with reflections on the crucial role of subjectivity and difference within modernism. Its final achievement is to show that the lessons learned from the failure of the asylum led to the rise of psychoanalysis, an endeavor focused on individual care and on the cooperation between psychiatrist and patient. By linking the rise of liberalism to a chapter in the history of psychiatry, Gauchet and Swain offer a fascinating reassessment of political modernity.

Madness and Democracy The Modern Psychiatric Universe 1st Table of contents:

Abstract I: The Moment of Origin
Part One: Advent, Apotheosis, and Failure of the Asylum Establishment
Abstract II
Chapter I: La Salpêtrière, or The Double Birth of the Asylum
Chapter II: The Politics of the Asylum
Chapter III: Impossible Power
Chapter IV: A Socializing Machine
Abstract III: Crisis, Agony, and Repetition
Abstract IV: Esquirol at La Salpêtrière
Part Two: The Passions as a Sketch of a General Theory of Mental Alienation
Abstract V: Esqirol in 1805
Abstract VI: The Clinical Resolution
Abstract VII: Between the Will to Madness and Brain Lesions
Abstract VIII: What the Passions Make It Possible to Think (Beginning)
Chapter V: What the Passions Make It Possible to Think
Chapter VI: Reducing Insanity: The Mirror of Alterity
Abstract IX: Approaches to Healing; How to Speak to the Insane
Chapter VII: The Society of Individuals and the Institution of Speech
Chapter VIII: The Conquest of Dissymmetry
Chapter IX: Openings and Aporia of Moral Treatment

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