Madness is Civilization

Informationen zum Autor Michael E. Staub is professor of English at Baruch College! City University of New York! and the author of Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America. Klappentext Explores the general consensus that societal ills were at the root of mental illness. This book chronicles the surge in influence of socially attuned psychodynamic theories along with the rise of radical therapy and psychiatric survivors' movements. Zusammenfassung Explores the general consensus that societal ills were at the root of mental illness. This book chronicles the surge in influence of socially attuned psychodynamic theories along with the rise of radical therapy and psychiatric survivors' movements.

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Michael E. Staub is professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York, and the author of Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America.

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Explores the general consensus that societal ills were at the root of mental illness. This book chronicles the surge in influence of socially attuned psychodynamic theories along with the rise of radical therapy and psychiatric survivors' movements.