“…First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is often cited as the best book ever written about market psychology. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Duchy of Nassau and the Eberbach Asylum -- State-building and the Origins of the Asylum -- Asylum Administration -- Anthropological Psychiatry and Moral Treatment -- Economic Crisis and the Social World of the Patients -- Part I: RELIGION -- 2 Religious Madness in the Vormärz: Culture, Politics, and the Professionalization of Psychiatry -- Bourgeois Culture -- The Politics of Religion -- The Professionalization of Psychiatry -- 3 Religious Madness and the Formation of Patients -- Mental Trauma and the Supernatural -- The Medicalization of Religious Madness -- State and Asylum -- Reshaping the Self -- Instilling Conscience -- Part II: SEXUALITY AND GENDER -- 4 Medical Representations of Sexual Madness: Nymphomania and Masturbatory Insanity -- Nymphomania -- Male Masturbation -- Gendered Models of Sexual Pathology -- Public versus Private Symptoms -- Aggression versus Passivity -- The Gendering of Brunonianism -- Repression and the Production of Desire -- The Construction of Femininity and Masculinity -- 5 Doctors and Patients: The Practice(s) of Nymphomania -- Social Class and Illness -- Power and Resistance: The Doctor-Patient Relationship -- The Formation of "Sexuality" -- 6 Women, Sex, and Rural Life -- Rural Sex Norms and "Man-Craziness" -- Medicine and Community in the Making of a Nymphomaniac -- Man-Craziness: Personal and Social Narratives of Sex -- Marital Strife and the Language of Accusation -- Single Women and the Language of Desire -- Part III: DELINQUENCY AND CRIMINALITY -- 7 Masturbatory Insanity and Delinquency -- The Case of Johann A. -- Institutions and Lower-Class Masturbators -- Families, Experts, and Middle-Class Masturbators -- 8 Jews and the Criminalization of Madness -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J.…”

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