04395nam 2200793Ia 450 991081005490332120200520144314.01-282-35883-997866123588380-520-93221-81-59875-931-010.1525/9780520932210(CKB)1000000000246844(EBL)254874(OCoLC)475969715(SSID)ssj0000195299(PQKBManifestationID)11157101(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195299(PQKBWorkID)10243186(PQKB)11545630(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056013(DNLM)101245979(MiAaPQ)EBC254874(OCoLC)62861615(MdBmJHUP)muse30757(DE-B1597)520804(DE-B1597)9780520932210(Au-PeEL)EBL254874(CaPaEBR)ebr10106453(CaONFJC)MIL235883(OCoLC)935230538(EXLCZ)99100000000024684420050414d2006 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrMadness at home the psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860 /Akihito Suzuki1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20061 online resource (273 p.)Medicine and society ;13Description based upon print version of record.0-520-24580-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction: Psychiatry in the Private and the Public Spheres --1. Commissions of Lunacy: Background, Sources, and Content --2. The Structure of Psychiatric Practice --3. The Problems of Liberty and Property --4. Managing Lunatics within the Domestic Sphere --5. Destabilizing the Domestic Psychiatric Regime --6. Public Authorities and the Ambiguities of the Lunatic at Home --Conclusion --Appendix: List of the Reports of Commissions of Lunacy in the London 'Times,' 1823-1861 --Notes --Bibliography --IndexThe history of psychiatric institutions and the psychiatric profession is by now familiar: asylums multiplied in nineteenth-century England and psychiatry established itself as a medical specialty around the same time. We are, however, largely ignorant about madness at home in this key period: what were the family's attitudes toward its insane member, what were patient's lives like when they remained at home? Until now, most accounts have suggested that the family and community gradually abdicated responsibility for taking care of mentally ill members to the doctors who ran the asylums. However, this provocatively argued study, painting a fascinating picture of how families viewed and managed madness, suggests that the family actually played a critical role in caring for the insane and in the development of psychiatry itself. Akihito Suzuki's richly detailed social history includes several fascinating case histories, looks closely at little studied source material including press reports of formal legal declarations of insanity, or Commissions of Lunacy, and also provides an illuminating historical perspective on our own day and age, when the mentally ill are mainly treated in home and community.Medicine and society ;13.Psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860Mentally illCareEnglandHistory19th centuryMentally illHome careEnglandHistory19th centuryMentally illEnglandFamily relationshipsHistory19th centuryMental health lawsEnglandHistory19th centuryPsychiatryEnglandHistory19th centuryMentally illCareHistoryMentally illHome careHistoryMentally illFamily relationshipsHistoryMental health lawsHistoryPsychiatryHistory616.89/00942/09034Suzuki Akihito1963-1595762MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810054903321Madness at home3967394UNINA