The Routledge history of madness and mental health / edited by Greg Eghigian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Routledge history of madness and mental health

Introduction to the history of madness and mental health / Greg Eghigian -- Part I. Madness in the ancient and medieval worlds -- Representations of madmen and madness in Jewish sources from the pre-exilic to the Roman-Byzantine period / Madalina Vartejanu-Joubert -- Ancient Greek and Roman traditions / Chiara Thumiger -- Madness in the Middle Ages / Claire Trenery and Peregrine Horden -- Part II. Professions, institutions, and tools -- Healers and healing in the early modern health care market / Elizabeth Mellyn -- The asylum, hospital, and clinic / Andrew Scull -- The epistemology and classification of madness since the 18th century / German E. Berrios and Ivana Markov�a -- Part III. Beyond medicine -- Psychiatry and religion / Rhodri Hayward -- Literature and the arts / Ilya Vinitsky -- Psychiatry and its visual culture, ca. 1800-1960 / Andreas Killen -- Part IV. Global dimensions, colonial and post-colonial settings -- Madness and psychiatry in Latin America's long nineteenth century / Manuella Meyer -- Histories of madness in South Asia / Waltraud Ernst -- Mad Africa / Sally Swartz -- Voices of madness in Japan : narrative devices at the psychiatric bedside and in modern literature / Akihito Suzuki -- Part V. Perspectives and experiences -- The straightjacket, the bed, and the pill : material culture and madness / Beno�it Majerus -- From the perspectives of mad people / Geoffrey Reaume -- Dementia : confusion at the borderlands of aging and madness / Jesse Ballenger -- Part VI. Maladies, disorders, and treatments -- Passions and moods / Laura Hirshbein -- Psychosis / Richard Noll -- Somatic therapies / Jonathan Sadowsky -- Psychotherapy in society : historical reflections / Sonu Shamdasani -- The antidepressant era revisited : towards differentiation and patient- -- Empowerment in diagnosis and treatment / Toine Pieters.