Tuesday 21 March 2017

Society and madness Asclepius Course Starting Tuesday March 28 at 10 am




For thousands of years, the human mind has been shrouded in mystery. Elusive in nature, the subject has prompted an intensive study of several puzzling questions about what the mind is, what it's made of, how it works, and how it differs from our brains. With the latest advancements in both our understanding of the brain and the technology we use to look inside it, scientists have vastly improved their understanding of the human mind. Now, more so than at any other point in human history, we can better explain and describe This is a ten week two hour per week course. The cost is £50, For more dtails rin 01792 480245 or 07592330467

Madness and Society Asclepius Course Starting Tuesday march 28 at 10 am

The Madness of King George: A Turning Point in Attitudes to Mental Disorder?

Mind Forg’d Manacles: Madness in the 18th Century

The Trade in Lunacy: Private Asylums in the 18th Century

Reform, Moral Management and the York Retreat

Spaces of Confinement: The Asylum as Utopia in the 19th Century

Foucault’s Great Confinement of the Insane

The Female Malady? Madness and Gender

Psychiatry and the ‘Manufacture of Madness’

Race, Colonial and Madness

Ethnicity, Migration and Mental Illness

Shattered Nerves

Themes of Degeneration

The Patient’s View

Discourses, Therapies and Conflict: How to Heal the Mind in the 20th Century

Male Hysteria: From Shell-Shock to Combat Exhaustion

Outside the Walls of the Asylum’: Anti-Psychiatry


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