ANDREW SCULL

Neste Loucura na civilização: uma história cultural da insanidade, o sociólogo britânico Andrew Scull condensa mais de quatro décadas de pesquisas sobre a história da loucura, da medicina e da psiqui

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPHSHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGHES PRIZEA riveting chronicle of faulty science, false promises, arrogance, greed, and shocking disregard for the wellbeing of patients suffering from mental disorders. An eloquent, meticulously documented, clear-eyed call for change Dirk WittenbornIn this masterful work, Andrew Scull, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry, sheds light on its troubled historyFor more than two hundred years, disturbances of reason, cognition and emotion - the sort of things that were once called madness - have been described and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, it is said, is an illness like any other - a disorder that can treated by doctors, whose suffering can be eased, and from which patients can return. And yet serious mental illness remains a profound mystery that is in some ways no closer to being solved than it was at the start of the twentieth century.In this clear-sighted and provocative exploration of psychiatry, acclaimed sociologist Andrew Scull traces the history of its attempts to understand and mitigate mental illness: from the age of the asylum and surgical and chemical interventions, through the rise and fall of Freud and the talking cure, and on to our own time of drug companies and antidepressants. Through it all, Scull argues, the often vain and rash attempts to come to terms with the enigma of mental disorder have frequently resulted in dire consequences for the patient.Deeply researched and lucidly conveyed, Desperate Remedies masterfully illustrates the assumptions and theory behind the therapy, providing a definitive new account of psychiatrys and societys battle with mental illness.

LOCURA Y CIVILIZACIóN. UNA HISTORIA CULTURAL DE LA DEMENCIA, es un libro del autor SCULL, ANDREW editado por F.C.E.. LOCURA Y CIVILIZACIóN. UNA HISTORIA CULTURAL DE LA DEMENCIA, tiene un código de ISBN 978-607-16-5831-9, de la coleccion HISTORIA.

La locura, dice Andrew Scull, es algo que nos asusta y que nos fascina, algo que obsesiona la imaginación del hombre y cuyos estragos están expuestos a la vista de todos. Es un término, por otro lado, que incomoda a unos y a otros y un estado alrededor del cual ha crecido toda una industria dedicada a su gestion y su eliminacion. En este libro transversal, Scull (uno de los autores mas respetados internacionalmente en el estudio de las raices historicas de los problemas mentales) examina la variada respuesta ante la locura a lo largo de los siglos en los ambitos social, historico y cultural, explorando de forma provocadora y amena la enfermedad mental a lo largo de mas de dos milenios. El lector hallara en el, en suma, una breve y critica historia de la Psiquiatria: una sintesis completa que atraviesa muchos campos del saber (literatura, arte, sociologia y medicina) y que muestra de forma luminosa al curioso, al estudiante o al profesional los origenes y los claroscuros de esta disciplina.