Read Madness: A Brief History Online
Authors: Roy Porter
in art
Gillray, James
(1
757
-181
5
)
74
,
Melancholia
(Dürer)
44
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream
The Rake ’s Progress
(Hogarth)
70,
72-4,
73
in literature
13,
87-8
Anatomy of Melancholy
(Burton)
19,
46,
52
^
68,
%
7°
L ’Assommoir
(Zola)
149
Don Quixote
(Cervantes)
69
Dunciad
(Pope)
8
,
79
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
(Gray) 67-8
Greek drama 14-15 as a metaphor
78
The Praise of Folly
(Erasmus) 68-9
Shakespeare
15,
66-7,
69
Swift 79-80 Robinson Nicholas (d. 1775)
30,
76-7,
126
Rush, Benjamin (1745-1813)
126-7
Salpetriere (Paris) 104-5, 130-2,
133
;
see also
asylums Sergius P. (Wolf man) 161-2 Spurzheim, Johann Caspar (1776-1832)
141,
142
St Dymphna, Gheel (shrine)
90
9
1
Tavistock Clinic
198
therapies/treatments;
see also
asylums; Freud, psychoanalysis; psychiatry bleeding
102,
126-7 moral & personal
48,
103-8
, 116,
140
psychopharmacology 205 -7
psychosurgery
54,
202-5 shock
6
, 48-9, 200-2 spiritual
19,
20,
34
Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry
1535-1860: a History
Presented in Selected English Texts
(Hunter & Macalpine) 3-4
Treatise of the Hypochondriack
and Hysterical Diseases
(Mandeville)
85
Trosse, George (1631-1713)
21-
4,
95
Tukes, of the York Retreat
104,
105,
107
Wernicke, Carl (1848-1905)
1
4
6-
7
,
1
49
Weyer, Johannes
(1
5
1
5
-1
5
88)
25
Willis, Francis
102,
103,
Wolf Man (Sergius P.)
161 -2
writings of the mad 161-2,
164,
170-1, 173-7;
see also
communicating with the mad; creativity/ creative genius; representations of insanity, in literature
The Case, Petition and Address of Samuel Bruckshaw
(1
774
) 16
7
-8
Illustrations of Madness
(Matthews)
165
The Life of the Reverend Mr George Trosse
(1714) 21-4
Lucida Intervalla
(Carkesse)
77
-8
A Mind that Found Itself
(Beers)
172
A Narrative of the Treatment
Received by a Gentleman
(1838) 158-60