@article{10.4159/harvard.9780674074408,
      author = {Greenfeld, Liah.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1403966},
      title = {Mind, modernity, madness the impact of culture on human  experience / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Harvard University Press,},
      abstract = {In the culminating volume of her nationalism trilogy,  Greenfeld argues that we have overlooked the connection  between egalitarian society and mental illness. Modern  nationalism rests on principles of popular sovereignty,  equality, and secularism. Citizens of the twenty-first  century enjoy unprecedented freedom to become the authors  of their personal destinies. Empowering as this is, it also  places them under enormous psychic strain. They must  constantly appraise their identities, manage their desires,  and calibrate their place within society. For vulnerable  individuals, this pressure is too much. Training her  analytic eye on extensive case histories in manic  depression and schizophrenia, Greenfeld contends that these  illnesses are dysfunctions of selfhood caused by society's  overburdening demands for self-realization. In her rigorous  diagnosis, madness is a culturally constituted malady.},
      number = {10.4159/harvard.9780674074408},
      recid = {1403966},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 670 p.)},
      address = {Cambridge :},
      year = {2013},
}