Subjectivity and illness narratives
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Literature and Medicine; narratives of mental illness.
illness as demon possession continued to appear in the 18th and early 19th centuries, even as cultural beliefs about the causes of madness were moving away from a religious model to a secular one that considered mental illness as a defect or disorder of the faculty of reason. This secular way of understanding madness led to the development of both private and public asylums for the confinement ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Subjectivity
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1755-6341,1755-635X
DOI: 10.1057/s41286-017-0038-6