In Western modernity, madness constitutes a universe of otherness and alteration that opens up the exploration experimentation forms human being. It challenges scientific epistemologies as much it gives access to singular representation reality contributes construction our common world. The contributions in this issue explore these themes on three intimately intertwined levels: experiences, exp...

Abstract The Brawzilian Psychiatric Reform sought to introduce new perspectives on madness, integrating other meanings about mental health; however, it seems that mad and crazy are used in everyday communications describe social events behaviors. This study aimed investigate the main contents beliefs anchor representations of madness a printed newspaper. A Thematic Content Analysis was carried ...

Although not immediately apparent, the discipline of behavioral finance is rapidly adopting an implicit prescriptive agenda. Behavioralfinance does not merely describe financial market reality, it shapes it. Economic rationality is taken as the ideal toward to which individuals 'should' strive. In this paper I show that, as a behavioral ideal, economic rationality is unjustified both from a str...

This article has three tasks. The ¢rst is to demonstrate that a high degree of overlap in argument and method exists between two major works by thinkers who are usually regarded as being fundamentally opposed in their approaches to understanding society. The two works are Norbert Elias's The Civilizing Process and Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality, especially the second and third volum...