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9780807822517

Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness

by McCandless, Peter
  • ISBN13:

    9780807822517

  • ISBN10:

    0807822515

  • eBook ISBN(s):

    9781469611150

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1996-03-01
  • Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

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Summary

This progressive, or Whiggish, view of the history of insanity came under attack from several directions in the 1960s and 1970s. Sociologists such as Erving Goffman and renegade psychiatrists such as Thomas Szasz and R.D. Laing pictured mental hospitals and orthodox psychiatry as repressive and mental illness as a social construct designed to justify the incarceration and control of individuals whose behavior was socially disruptive, economically unproductive, politically deviant, or morally objectionable.

Author Biography

Peter McCandless is professor of history at the College of Charleston

Table of Contents

Prefacep. xiii
Introductionp. 1
Before the Asylum, 1670-1828
Out of Her Senses: Insanity in Early South Carolinap. 15
A Propitious Moment: Founding the Asylump. 40
The Antebellum Asylum, 1828-1860
Give the Experiment a Fair Trial: Sustaining the Antebellum Asylymp. 63
A House of Cure: Therapy at the Antebellum Asylump. 81
A Well-Regulated Community: Life in the Antebellum Asylump. 100
An Overgrown Nuisance: The Struggle for a New Asylump. 124
Beyond the Asylum, 1828-1915
Bound with Cords and Chains: Domestic Care of the Insanep. 143
There Is No Discount on Being Crazy: Local Government and the Insanep. 163
How Various and Conflicting: Therapy in the Communityp. 184
The Postbellum Asylum, 1861-1920
The Fearful Ordeal: The Asylum during Civil War and Reconstructionp. 213
I Am Not an Office Seeker: The Politics of Insanityp. 235
The Study of Economy: Managing the Postbellum Asylump. 249
The Horrors of This Place: Life in the Postbellum Asylump. 270
There Is Nothing Joyful about an Asylum: Progressivism and Insanityp. 297
Epiloguep. 318
Notesp. 323
Indexp. 401
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