Madness, on the margins of society. On the contrary, tell us Nicolas Henkes and Benoit Majerus, sociologist at the CNRS and teacher-researcher at the University of Luxembourg, respectively, in a fascinating little book. “Personal Experience” but revealing “riots and great upheavals” time, mental illness “on the contrary, it presents itself as a familiar figure placed at the heart of modern societies” .
From theories about the benefits of isolation to the struggle for dehospitalization, from asylums to the rise of psychotherapy and drugs that hold out hope for a revolution in care, the two authors offer us a tour of the landscape of psychiatry in Europe. in the west. , since XIXe century and its conceptual breaks.
A journey that takes us away from the epinal character of the madman rejected by everyone; Since the 19th century, society has wanted to control but also cure its mentally ill, and families have been split up…
Source: Le Figaro
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