Madness(English, Paperback, Porter Roy)

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Madness(English, Paperback, Porter Roy) is written by Porter Roy and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0192802674 (ISBN 10) and 9780192802675 (ISBN 13).

This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac. The origins of current debates about how we define and deal with insanity are examined through eyewitness accounts of those treating patients, writers, artists, and the mad themselves.