Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness

Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness focuses on a critical question in the history of psychiatry: to what extent does psychopathology describe phenomena that exist before or beyond their description?

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Marco Innamorati is full professor of History and Philosophy of Scientific Concepts and Dynamic and Developmental Psychology at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy. He already published for Routledge A Critical History of Psychotherapy, Volume 1 and 2 (with Renato Foschi).

Klappentext

Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness focuses on a critical question in the history of psychiatry: to what extent does psychopathology describe phenomena that exist before or beyond their description?

Inhalt

Introduction

1. Conversion Hysteria

2. Tarantism

3. Demonic Possession

4. Dual and Multiple Personality

5. Mad Travellers

6. Sluggish Schizophrenia

7. Shamanism and Arctic hysteria

8. Amok

9. Hikikomori

10. The Misunderstanding of Homosexuality As a Form of Pathology

Some brief final considerations

Bibliographic references