{"product_id":"asylum-ways-of-seeing-psychiatric-patients-american-thought-and-culture-hardback-9780812253573","title":"Asylum Ways of Seeing; Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture (Hardback) 9780812253573","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAsylum Ways of Seeing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePsychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHeather Murray (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812253573\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 January 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 7 bw halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"[A] unique history of patient cultures in 20th century America...Read as an interweaving of stories, events, and perspectives over historical time, [\u003ci\u003eAsylum Ways of Seeing\u003c\/i\u003e] offers the reader immersion in the complex intricacies of individual and collective human agency and its often unpredictable and irreversible consequences. Heather Murray is a masterful guide, who provides a wonderfully varied collection of perspectives that constantly challenges readers to expand and consider alternative ways of understanding the historical and personal stories she relates.\" (Journal of the History of Behavioral Science) \"[A] carefully argued and meticulously documented exercise in intellectual and cultural history, a reconstruction of what [Murray] calls 'patient cultures,' which she understands as the sensibilities and emotional lives of psychiatry's twentieth-century subjects as they were shaped by institutions that both offered respite and served as sites of oppression. It is admirably attentive to nuance, human frailty, and individuals' shortcomings.\" (American Literary History) \"\"Highly recommended...Murray explores the somewhat unusual premise that asylums and other residential psychiatric institutions can be places of citizenship that prompt the development of different (i.e., alternative) versions of culture...This is an illuminating read with powerful implications for those working in such facilities, and a must read for anyone who is either advocating for or treating residents of such facilities today.\" (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsylum Ways of Seeing\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eAsylum Ways of Seeing\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. What Can't Be Cured Must Be Endured\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Biological Psychiatry and the \"Happy Drone\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Communities, Selfhood, and \"Lonely Crowds\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. From Possessive to Expressive Individualism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Liberating \"Those Whose Ways Are Different\"\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Withdrawing from the Fray at the End of the Century\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52740239065368,"sku":"9780812253573","price":31.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/asylum-ways-of-seeing-psychiatric-patients-american-thought-and-culture-hardback-9780812253573","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}