Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness: The Eberbach Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849 by Ann Goldberg soon to be available at the brilliant BookLovers of Bath web site!
Published: Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, Paperback.
First in this, paperback, edition. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps;
From the cover: Drawing upon a rich set of asylum patient case records, this book reconstructs the encounter of state officials and medical practitioners with peasant madness and deviancy at a transitional period in German and psychiatry history.
Focusing on religious madness, nymphomania, masturbatory insanity, and Jewishness, this study probes the daily encounters in which psychiatric categories were applied, experienced, and resisted in the settings of family, village, and insane asylum. Goldbergs careful examination sheds light on a range of issues concerning gender, sexuality, religious politics, class relations, state-building, and anti-Semitism.
Near Fine.
[X] 236 pages. Index. Bibliography. Trade Paperback (9¼” x 6″).
Of course, if you don’t like this one, may I beguile you with my offerings from hither or maybe further, hand picked, books in my Psychology catalogue?
