Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture by Murray, Heather
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture by Murray, Heather

Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture

Asylum Ways of Seeing is a cultural and intellectual history of people with mental illnesses in the...
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Author: Heather Murray
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Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture by Murray, Heather

Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture

$144.40
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture by Murray, Heather

Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture

$144.40
Author: Heather Murray
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Asylum Ways of Seeing is a cultural and intellectual history of people with mental illnesses in the twentieth-century United States. While acknowledging the fraught, and often violent, histories of American psychiatric hospitals, Heather Murray also suggests that it is in these hospitals that patients became more intense observers: they gave more conscious consideration to institutional and broader kinds of citizenship, to the nature and needs of communities versus those of individuals, to scientific modernity, and to human rights and solidarities among the suffering. All of these ideas have animated twentieth-century America, and, as Murray shows, have not just flowed into psychiatric hospitals but outward from them as well. These themes are especially clear within patients' intimate, creative, and political correspondence, writings, and drawings, as well as in hospital publications and films.

This way of thinking and imagining contrasts with more common images of the patient--as passive, resigned, and absented from the world in the cloistered setting of the hospital--that have animated psychiatry over the course of the twentieth century. Asylum Ways of Seeing traces how it is that patient resignation went from being interpreted as wisdom in the early twentieth century, to being understood as a capitulation in scientific and political sources by mid-century, to being seen as a profound violation of selfhood and individual rights by the century's end. In so doing, it makes a call to reconsider the philosophical possibilities within resignation.

Author: Heather Murray
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 01/04/2022
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780812253573

About the Author
Heather Murray is Associate Professor of History at the University of Ottawa and author of Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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