Author: Jodelet, Denis
Title: Madness and Social Representations: Living with the Mad in One French Community
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1991). orig.boards. 23x15cm, vi, 310 pp, Series: Medicine and Society, Volume 5.. Some page-edge soil. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Life of the Mad, Living with the Mad; Framework & History of a Family Colony; Custom & the Defence of Identity; From Contact to Impregnation; The Barriers to Integration: From Difference to Separation; Similarities & Differences in Everyday Life; Beyond Principles: Fear & the Social Threat; The People of Those Homes: Understanding Without Knowledge; The Three Faces of a Single State; Thinking About Mental Illness; Acting Out a Conception of Madness; Epilogue: Face to Face With the Loonies.

Keywords: French Social Psychology, France Psychiatry, Mental Psychiatric, Psychological Mad, Ainay-le-Chateau, Madness Sociology, Insane Insanity Ill, Mentally Illness, Family Colony