Dedication to Signor Bernardino Paterno -- Dedicatory poems by Policriti -- Author's prologue to the spectators -- Universal madness -- The frenetic or delirious : Minerva -- The melancholic and savage : Jupiter -- The lazy and good-for-nothing : Apollo -- The drunkards : Abstemius -- The forgetful and demented : Charon -- The dumb, vacant, and lifeless : Sentinius -- The round-headed, gross, and simple-minded ox of Egypt -- The idiots and air-headed Samian ewe -- The jerks and giddies : Bubona -- The clumsy and fatuous : Fatuellus -- The perverts : Themis -- The spiteful and tarot types : Nemesis -- The ridiculous : Risius -- The vainglorious : Juno -- The fakers and jokers : Mercury -- The lunatics and episodic crazies : Hecate -- The love-mad : Cupid -- The desperate : Venilia -- The heteroclites, the odd, lame-brained, and done-for : Vulcan -- The buffoons : Fabulanus -- The merry, sweet, facetious, and loving : Bacchus -- The capricious and frenzied : Tisifone -- The violent and beastly : in need of ropes and chains : Mars -- The over-the-top and triple-refined : Volutina -- The obstinate, like a mule : Minos -- The hairless : Rhadamanthus -- The unbridled, like a horse : Hippona -- The extravagant, extreme, and witless : Hercules -- The diabolical : Pluto -- On madness in women -- Poems on madness -- On madness / by Theodoro Angelucci -- In praise of madness / by Guido Casoni -- To angelucci : in praise of madness / by the author

This text is a classic of French post-structuralist scholarship and is widely recommended on humanities courses across a variety of disciplines. Foucault's analysis of psychology is a devastating critique of the common understanding of insanity.

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The exact definition of "madness" remains elusive. There are difficulties in distinguishing the criminal from the mad or, more euphemistically, the mentally ill. Controversy has centered on the frightening potential possessed by the state to deprive of his rights the individual officially classified as mad. In this book, Wing, a psychiatrist of international repute, argues for a limited medical definition of mental illness, although he explains how even a doctor's professional judgment may often be influenced by social pressures. He compares concepts of madness prevalent in different types of society, examining, for example, the Marxist attitude towards the deviant in a socialist state. In a chapter which draws much from his own experience, he shows precisely how the apparatus of state medicine is used to suppress political dissidence in Russia. He also critically reviews the petty tyrannies prevalent in the West and tackles the difficult analytical problem of schizophrenia, a subject on which he is one of the most respected medical authorities. Reasoning about Madness is an original and important work in which the author successfully resists the temptation to erect "grand theories that explain nothing because they attempt to explain everything." Instead, he concentrates on developing a definition of madness which strikes a balance between the benefits of medical care and the preservation of human liberties.

This translation of Tomaso Garzoni's Renaissance "best-seller" provides a rich and revealing window on 16th-century views of madness, foolishness, and social deviance. Garzoni's encyclopedic work is perhaps the most important contribution of the last half of the century to the "fools" genre to which Erasmus' Praise of Folly and Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools also belong. Garzoni provides a spoof of academic writing on madness, with extensive "reviews of the medical literature" on certain types of madness. A final, intriguing section on the varieties of madness to be found in Garzoni's female "patients" reveals much about late-Renaissance attitudes towards women. --Book Jacket.

Mandatory Madness offers an unprecedented social and cultural history of colonial psychiatry in Palestine under British rule before 1948.

From Madness to Mental Health neither glorifies nor denigrates the contributions of psychiatry, clinical psychology, and psychotherapy, but rather considers how mental disorders have historically challenged the ways in which human beings have understood and valued their bodies, minds, and souls. Greg Eghigian has compiled a unique anthology of readings, from ancient times to the present, that includes Hippocrates; Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love, penned in the 1390s; Dorothea Dix; Aaron T. Beck; Carl Rogers; and others, culled from religious texts, clinical case studies, memoirs, academic lectures, hospital and government records, legal and medical treatises, and art collections. Incorporating historical experiences of medical practitioners and those deemed mentally ill, From Madness to Mental Health also includes an updated bibliography of first-person narratives on mental illness compiled by Gail A. Hornstein.

Psychiatry regularly comes under attack as a way of caring for and controlling the mentally ill. Originally published in 1986, this title explores the history and theory of psychiatry to illuminate current practice at the time, and shows why mental health services had developed in particular ways. The book was invaluable for all those who needed to understand the problems and processes behind current psychiatric practice at the time – sociologists and psychologists, psychiatrists and doctors, social workers, and health service planners and administrators – and will still be of historical interest today.