Madness
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Madness
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Meaning of Madness
See insanity.
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See Also
Mental Health; Mental Illness; Psychotherapy; Psychotropic Drugs; Schizophrenia; Stigma
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Further Reading
R. Simon and D. Aaronson, The Insanity Defense (1988); R. Porter, A Social History of Madness: The World Through the Eyes of the Insane (1989). Field, M. J. 1960. Search for Security: An Ethno-Psychiatric Study of Rural Ghana. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
Foucault, Michel. 1965. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Pantheon.
Grob, Gerald N. 1994. The Mad among Us: A History of the Care of America's Mentally Ill. New York: Free Press.
Horwitz, Allan V. 1982. The Social Control of Mental Illness. New York: Academic Press.
Horwitz, Allan V. 2002. Creating Mental Illness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lunbeck, Elizabeth. 1994. The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Rosen, George. 1968. Madness in Society: Chapters in the Historical Sociology of Mental Illness. New York: Harper.
Allan V. Horwitz