谁疯了？谁不是？谁来决定？
在这篇关于精神疾病的引人入胜的新探索中，布伦丹·凯利教授探讨了历史上的“疯狂”，以及几个世纪以来我们是如何应对的。
我们从现代印度的精神病院来到维多利亚时代英国的大脑科学研究。我们发现了正式庇护护理的开端，并见证了19世纪和20世纪初在爱尔兰、英国、比利时、意大利、德国和美国的大型精神病医院的实验疗法。
《寻找疯狂》涵盖了脑叶切除术和纳粹的Aktion T4运动，以及弗洛伊德、精神分析、认知行为疗法和神经科学，探讨了近年来从“心理喋喋不休”到“神经喋喋不休”的转变。
这是一部关于困扰人类心理的最基本恐惧之一——疯狂——的包罗万象的历史，它以一份充满激情的变革宣言结束：四项建议，旨在使心理健康服务更有效、更方便、更公正。
In Search of Madness: A Psychiatrist’s Travels Through the History of Mental Illness
Who is ‘Mad’? Who is Not? And Who Decides?
In this fascinating new exploration of mental illness, Professor Brendan Kelly examines ‘madness’ in history and how we have responded to it over the centuries.
We travel from the psychiatric institutions of modern India to scientific studies of the brain in Victorian England. We discover the beginnings of formal asylum care and witness the experimental therapies of the cavernous psychiatric hospitals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Ireland, England, Belgium, Italy, Germany and the United States.
Covering lobotomy and the Nazis’ Aktion T4 campaign, as well as Freud, psychoanalysis, cognitive behavioural therapy and neuroscience, In Search of Madness examines the shift in recent times from ‘psychobabble’ to ‘neurobabble’.
This is an all encompassing history of one of the most basic fears to haunt the human psyche – madness – and it concludes with a passionate manifesto for change: four proposals to make mental health services more effective, accessible and just.
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