Author: Editors-W. F. Bynum; Editor-Roy Porter; Editor-Michael Shepherd
Title: The Anatomy of Madness : Essays in the History of Psychiatry. Complete 3 Volume Set in First Edition in Fine D/W's. Volume I: Peoples and Ideas. Volume II: Institutions and Society. Vol. III: The Asylum and Its Psychiatry.
Description: Tavistock Publications, 1985. Hardcover. Pubd. 1985 (Vols I&2); 1988 Vol.3. Vol.I : xiii+316; Vol. II : xiii+283; Vol.III: x+353p. Illustrated. This three-volume set covers the history of British and continental European madness and psychiatry from the Renaissance through to Freud. Volume 1 examines theories of madness and its treatment, both those of laymen and those of the emergent psychiatric profession, as well as looking at the experiences of mad people themselves. Volume 2 examines the emergence of the modern lunatic asylum and judges how far it lived up to the hopes of the nineteenth century reformers. Essays on such subjects as psychiatry in the courtroom and the treatment of First World War shellshock victims dissect the historical dimensions of current notions of psychiatry as a means of social control. Volume 3 brings together essays on nineteenth century psychiatry on various themes ranging from the architecture of asylums to social policy, from therapeutics to professionalization. Aspects of French, Italian, American and Danish psychiatry are also analysed. All three volumes in fine condition without marks or signatures with the exception of the remains of a small label 3cm x 1cm on fep of Vol.II. All d/w's unpriceclipped and protected since birth. Email for detailed scans.See . Fine

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