@article{1479211,
      recid = {1479211},
      author = {Greenfeld, Liah, },
      title = {Mind, Modernity, Madness : The Impact of Culture on Human  Experience /},
      pages = {1 online resource (688 p.) :},
      abstract = {It's the American dream-unfettered freedom to follow our  ambitions, to forge our identities, to become self-made.  But what if our culture of limitless self-fulfillment is  actually making millions desperately ill? One of our  leading interpreters of modernity and nationalism, Liah  Greenfeld argues that we have overlooked the connection  between egalitarian society and mental illness.  Intellectually fearless, encompassing philosophy,  psychology, and history, Mind, Modernity, Madness  challenges the most cherished assumptions about the  blessings of living in a land of the free. Modern  nationalism, says Greenfeld, rests on bedrock 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. The culminating volume of Greenfeld's nationalism  trilogy, Mind, Modernity, Madness is a tour de force in the  classic tradition of Émile Durkheim-and a bold foray into  uncharted territory. Often counter-intuitive, always  illuminating, Mind, Modernity, Madness presents a  many-sided view of humanity, one that enriches our deepest  understanding of who we are and what we aspire to be.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479211},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674074408},
}