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      Théodore Géricault and the Subject of Psychotherapy

      Portraits of the Insane

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      Portraits of the Insane book

      Théodore Géricault and the Subject of Psychotherapy
      ByRobert Snell
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      eBook Published 23 May 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429478406
      Pages 256
      eBook ISBN 9780429478406
      Subjects Behavioral Sciences
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      Snell, R. (2017). Portraits of the Insane: Théodore Géricault and the Subject of Psychotherapy (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429478406

      ABSTRACT

      In the early 1820s, in the gloomy aftermath of the 1789 Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, the French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) made five portraits of patients in an asylum or clinic. No depictions of madness before or since can compare with them for humanity, straightforwardness and immediacy.  The portraits challenge us to find responses in ourselves to the face and the embodied mysteries of the other person, and to our own internal (unsconscious, disavowed) otherness: in this sense, Gericault was a "painter-analyst". The challenge could not be more urgent, in our world of suspicion of the stranger, and of the medicalisation of madness. The book sketches the history of this last process, from the Enlightenment through to the Revolution and its public health policies, to the birth of the asylum in its interface with the penal system. But there was also a new medico-philosophical conviction that the mad were never wholly mad, and their suffering and disturbance might best be addressed through relationship and speech.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter One|12 pages

      Illustrations

      chapter Two|15 pages

      The canvases unrolled

      chapter Three|16 pages

      Géricault, a biographical sketch

      chapter Four|13 pages

      Madness in modernity, 1656–1789

      chapter Five|24 pages

      The Revolution, Cabanis, Pinel, the asylum

      chapter Six|12 pages

      A new account of the human: responses to Pinel’s Traité

      chapter Seven|13 pages

      The Golden Age of alienism

      chapter Eight|42 pages

      Géricault and the alienists

      chapter Nine|16 pages

      History painter

      chapter Ten|9 pages

      Surplus and the limits of interpretation

      chapter |28 pages

      Some Conclusions

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