Introduction Part I
The Pneumatic Age
A. The Ancient World
The Bible, 1 Samuel (ca. 960 B.C.E.)
Euripides (484-407/6 B.C.E.), The Bacchae (ca. 404 B.C.E.)
Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.E.), Writings on Hysteria (ca.
fourth century B.C.E.)
The Bible, Mark 5 (ca. 65-75 C.E.)
Soranus (ca. second century C.E.), "Madness or Insanity
(Greek Mania)"
B. Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Sarabiyun Ibn Ibrahim, "Three Cases of Melancholia by
Rufus of Ephesus" (ca. 873)
Ibn Sina [Avicenna] (ca. 980-1037), "Lovesickness" (First
Latin translation, twelfth century)
Julian of Norwich (1342-ca. 1416), Revelations of Divine
Love (ca. 1390s)
John Brydall (ca. 1635-ca. after 1705), The Law Relating
to Natural Fools, Mad-Folks, and Lunatick Persons
(1700)
Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738), "Aphorisms" (1765)
William Cullen (1710-1790), Lectures on the Materia
Medica (1773)
A. Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Reform Part II The Age of Optimism
Philippe Pinel (1745-1826), A Treatise on Insanity (1801)
Johann Christian August Heinroth (1773-1843), Textbook on
Disturbances of Mental Life (1818)
Jean Etienne Esquirol (1772-1840), "Monomania" (1838)
Dorothea Dix (1802-1887), Memorial to the
Legislature of Massachusetts (1843)
The M'Naughten Rules (1843)
B. The Asylum
The Opal: A Monthly Periodical of the State Lunatic
Asylum, Devoted to Usefulness, Edited by the Patients of the Utica
State Lunatic Asylum (1850-1860)
Limerick District Lunatic Asylum, Report of the Limerick
District Lunatic Asylum for the Year Ending December 31st, 1866 (1867)
Great Britain, Office of Superintendent Government, Annual
Report of the Insane Asylums in Bengal for the Year 1867 (1868)
Elizabeth P. W. Packard (1816-1897), The Prisoner's Hidden
Life, or Insane Asylums Unveiled (1868)
C. Brain Science, Nerves, and Clinical Psychiatry
Nelson Sizer (1812-1897), Forty Years in Phrenology;
Embracing Recollections of History,
Anecdote, and Experience (1891)
George Miller Beard (1839-1883), Cases of Hysteria,
Neurasthenia, Spinal Irritation, or Allied Affections (1874)
Auguste Tamburini (1848-1919), "A Theory of
Hallucinations" (1881)
Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902), Psychopathia
Sexualis (1892)
Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), "A Tuesday Lesson:
Hysteroepilepsy" (1888)
Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926), "About the Surveillance Ward
at the Heidelberg Clinic for Lunatics" (1895)
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), "The Origin and Development of
Psychoanalysis" (1910)
Vincent, "Confessions of an Agoraphobic Victim (1919) Part III The
Militant Age
A. War and Neurosis
Fritz Kaufmann (1875-1941), "The Systematic Cure of
Complicated Psychogenic Motor Disorders Among Soldiers in One Session"
(1916)
W. H. R. Rivers (1864-1922), War Neurosis and Military
Training (1918)
B. The New Focus on the Body
Anonymous, "Autopsychology of the Manic-Depressive" (1910)
Herman Lundborg (1868-1943), "The Danger of Degeneracy"
(1922)
The Decision in Buck v. Bell (1927)
Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857-1940), "The Treatment of
Dementia Paralytica by Malaria
Inoculation" (1927)
Hermann Simon (1867-1947), Active Therapy in the Lunatic
Facility (1929)
Anonymous, "Insulin and I" (1940)
Walter Freeman (1895-1972) and James W. Watts (1904-1994),
"Psychosurgery During
1936-1946" (1947)
C. Psychiatric Eugenics in Germany
Fritz Lenz (1887-1976), Human Selection and Race Hygiene
(1921)
Germany, "The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Ill
Offspring" (14 July 1933)
Documents on the "T-4" and "14f13" Programs (1939-1945)
D. Mental Illness, Psychiatry, and Communism
Thea H. (b. 1923), An Experience
of Psychosis in Post-World War II Germany (1949)
Records in the Case of Pyotr Grigorenko (1969-1970)
World Psychiatric Association, "Declaration of Hawaii"
(1977)
E. Anti-Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry, and Deinstitutionalization
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), "The North African Syndrome"
(1952)
Thomas Szasz (b. 1920), "The Myth of Mental Illness" (1960)
Franco Basaglia (1924-1980), "The Problem of the Incident"
(1968)
Great Britain Department of Health and Social Security,
Better Services for the Mentally Ill (1975) Part IV The
Psychoboom
Alcoholics Anonymous (founded 1935), "The Twelve Steps"
and "The Twelve Traditions"
Carl Rogers (1902-1987), "The Attitude and Orientation of
the Counselor in Client Centered Therapy" (1949)
Aaron T. Beck (b. 1921), "Cognitive Therapy: Nature and
Relation to Behavior Therapy" (1970)
Edna I. Rawlings and Dianne K. Carter, "The Intractable
Female Patient" (1977)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-III,
"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder" (1980)
Psychiatrists Debate Osheroff v. Chestnut Lodge (1990)
Bibliography of First-Person Narratives of Madness in
English (Fourth Edition) by Gail A. Hornstein
Subtitle: Psychiatric Disorder
and Its Treatment in Western Civilization Edited
and with an
introduction by Greg Eghigian Subject:Health
and Medicine Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4666-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4665-0 Pages:
448 pages Publication Date: February 2010
Praise for the From Madness to Mental Health:
"There is no comparable sourcebook dealing with mental illness in
Western society and this collection of texts fills an existing void."—Gerald Grob,
Henry E. Sigerist professor of the history of medicine emeritus
"Mental illness has long been one of the most baffling phenomena known
to us. It is devastating for the individual suffering from it and
incomprehensible for those around him or her. This exquisite volume
brings together a number of essential texts in the history of
psychiatry, highlighting the changing ideas of physicians and the
experience of madness. It is an invaluable aid to students in the
history of psychiatry, psychology, medicine, and the humanities."—Hans Pols,
University of Sydney
Description: From Madness
to Mental Health neither glorifies nor denigrates the
contributions of psychiatry, clinical psychology, and psychotherapy,
but rather considers how mental disorders have historically challenged
the ways in which human beings have understood and valued their bodies,
minds, and souls.
Greg Eghigian has compiled a unique anthology of readings, from ancient
times to the present, that includes Hippocrates; Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love, penned
in the 1390s; Dorothea Dix; Aaron T. Beck; Carl Rogers; and others,
culled from religious texts, clinical case studies, memoirs, academic
lectures, hospital and government records, legal and medical treatises,
and art collections. Incorporating historical experiences of medical
practitioners and those deemed mentally ill, From Madness to Mental Health also
includes an updated bibliography of first-person narratives on mental
illness compiled by Gail A. Hornstein.About the Author:
Greg Eghigian is the director of the science,
technology, and society program and associate professor of modern
history at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author and editor
of numerous books, including The Self
as Project: Politics and Human Sciences in the Twentieth Century.
