Andrew Scull: 6 books

The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now? The very disease no longer exists. In this fascinating account, Andrew Scull tells the story of Hysteria - an illness that disappeared not through medical endeavour, but through growing...

Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for his previous work in this area, examines a range of issues, including the...

Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. Through the centuries, in poetry and in prose, in drama and in the visual arts, its depredations are on display for all to see. A whole...

This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the history of psychiatry over the past decade and a half. Examining some of the major substantive debates in the field from the eighteenth century to the present, the historiographic essays provide a...

The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go—these are some of the traits we associate with madness. Today, mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a medical lens,...

「瘋癲」一直都是你我生活的一部分。 任何想去看（或已看過）精神科醫師的人都該讀一讀。 ——德克．威特恩伯恩╱《亦藥亦毒》作者 ◆繼傅柯《古典時代瘋狂史》以來最重要的精神醫學史著作 ◆當代精神醫學史權威，完整梳理古今瘋癲的理論與治療 ◆史詩級巨著，集結五十年來最新研究成果 ◆從歷史脈絡檢視前人說法，提供更深度的辯證思考基礎 ◆本書入圍2016年美國專業與學術傑出出版獎 ◆收錄172張珍貴歷史插圖、照片 瘋癲，今日稱為精神疾病。 它象徵社會中的失序，代表群體中的異常。 今日我們如此恐懼瘋癲的出現， 但回溯歷史，它早已是人類生活的一部分。 沒有人可以像史考爾一般，將精神醫學史寫得如此華麗，能同時吸引一般讀者與學界人士，這是近二十年來最用心的一本書。 ——大衛．希利（David...