Journeys Into Madness : Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire Hardback
Edited by Gemma Blackshaw, Sabine Wieber
Part of the Austrian and Habsburg Studies series
Hardback
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At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud’s investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this ‘territory’ in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art works produced by patients and writers were developing innovative literary techniques to convey a character’s interior life.
This collection of essays uses the framework of journeys in order to highlight the diverse artistic, cultural and medical responses to a peculiarly Viennese anxiety about the madness of modern times.
The travellers of these journeys vary from patients to doctors, artists to writers, architects to composers and royalty to tourists; in engaging with their histories, the contributors reveal the different ways in which madness was experienced and represented in ‘Vienna 1900’.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:222 pages
- Publisher:Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:19/07/2012
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- ISBN:9780857454584
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:222 pages
- Publisher:Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:19/07/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780857454584
