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Witch hunts in Western Europe, the history of suicide, the rise of the asylum, mad monarchs, spies and visionaries, gendered madness, criminal insanity and degeneration, damaging the body...
Madness and Society
...the growth of the psychiatric profession, Freud, Jung and anti-psychiatry, and the tensions between organic, analytical and sociological explanations of insanity.
This course examines the ways in which deviant behaviour has been identified and controlled from the ancient world to the present.
Course Objectives:
By the end of this module students should be able to think critically and historically about the material presented in this course (and, hopefully, materials outside the course). Students should be able to locate, analyse and create an argument around an historical topic of their choosing, to be approved by the instructor. The student should be familiar with the main themes in the history of sleep and dreams, including their ethical, historical and philosophical implications.
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