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Emotions and the making of psychiatric reform in Britain, c. 1770-1820 / Mark Neuendorf.

9783030843564 (electronic bk.)
3030843564 (electronic bk.)
3030843556
9783030843557

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

English

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10.1007/978-3-030-84356-4 doi

BF531

152.4094109033

This book explores the ways which people navigated the emotions provoked by the mad in Britain across the long eighteenth century. Building upon recent advances in the historical study of emotions, it plots the evolution of attitudes towards insanity, and considers how shifting emotional norms influenced the development of a humanitarian temperament, which drove the earliest movements for psychiatric reform in England and Scotland. Reacting to a culture of sensibility, which encouraged tears at the sight of tender suffering, early asylum reformers chose instead to express their humanity through unflinching resolve, charging into madhouses to contemplate scenes of misery usually hidden from public view, and confronting the authorities that enabled neglect to flourish. This intervention required careful emotional management, which is documented comprehensively here for the first time. Drawing upon a wide array of medical and literary sources, this book provides invaluable insights into pre-modern attitudes towards insanity. Mark Neuendorf is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His research examines the emotions and print cultures of British psychiatry, with a particular focus on the emergence of organised psychiatric reform.

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Palgrave studies in the history of emotions.

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