Robert Snell

Portraits of the Insane (eBook, PDF)

Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book sketches the history of this last process, from the Enlightenment through to the Revolution and its public health policies, to the birth of the asylum in its interface with the penal system. But there was also a new medico-philosophical conviction that the mad were never wholly mad.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429903175
• Artikelnr.: 54112558

Autorenporträt

Robert Snell

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Illustrations
The canvases unrolled
Géricault
a biographical sketch
Madness in modernity
1656-1789
The Revolution
Cabanis
Pinel
the asylum
A new account of the human: responses to Pinel's Traité
The Golden Age of alienism
Géricault and the alienists
History painter
Surplus and the limits of interpretation
Some Conclusions