Portraits of the Insane: Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy

ISBN-13: 9780367103255 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 256 str.

Robert Snell

Opis

The book sketches the history of this last process, from the Enlightenment through to the Revolution and its public health policies, to the birth of the asylum in its interface with the penal system. But there was also a new medico-philosophical conviction that the mad were never wholly mad.

Spis treści

Introduction , Illustrations , The canvases unrolled , Géricault, a biographical sketch , Madness in modernity, 1656–1789 , The Revolution, Cabanis, Pinel, the asylum , A new account of the human: responses to Pinel’s Traité , The Golden Age of alienism , Géricault and the alienists , History painter , Surplus and the limits of interpretation , Some Conclusions

O autorze

Robert Snell