The book by one of the greatest German psychiatrists of the 20th century, Klaus Dörner, “Citizen and Madness” is devoted to the analysis of attitudes towards unreason and madness against the background of the formation of civil society in England, France and Germany and against the background of the formation of social and public institutions. The author presents an in-depth analysis of the natural scientific and philosophical doctrines underlying psychiatry and the classification of mental disorders. The book is intended both for specialists in the field of sociology, psychiatry, and for readers interested in philosophy and history.

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Preface to the second edition 16 CITIZEN AND MADNESSI. INTRODUCTION 211. Purpose of the study: self-reflection of psychiatry 212. On the question of a preliminary understanding of the connection between psychiatry and sociology 243. Research methods 334. Historical background: alienation of madness 37II. GREAT BRITAIN 421. Isolation of unreason and the public 42a) Definition of the political public 42b) Hysteria and citizen identification 50c) Steps towards unreason 582. Industrial revolution, romanticism and the psychiatric paradigm 62a) Socio-economic situation 62b) William Batty 69c) Functionalization of hysteria 923. Reform movement and dialectic coercion 105a) Crisis - liberal and conservative answers 105b) Shelter, or Conscious coercion 125c) Reconciliation with the system, or Invisible coercion 136III.FRANCE 1531. Theoretical and practical preparation for the destruction of the old regime 153a) Vitalists and enlighteners 156b) Rousseau and Mesmer 161c) Failure reforms of the physiocrats 1752. Revolution and emancipation of the insane 183a) The poor and the insane during the revolution; reform of medicine 183b) Medicine of ideologists 188c) Pinel: historical paradigm and liberation on the path of administrative morality 1943. Psychiatric and sociological positivism 210a) Restoration and reform in psychiatry 213b) Somatism and progress 229IV. GERMANY 2411. Mercantilism and enlightened citizens 241a) Population policy and differentiation of the alienated 242b) From Enlightenment to Sturm und Drang 257c) Kant and empirical psychology 2652. Revolution from above and the failed psychiatric paradigm 282a) Romantic impulse in medicine 282b) Prussian reform and the French influence 3023. From restoration to bourgeois natural-scientific liberalism 331a) Natural philosophical and theological psychiatry 331b) Pre-March period: “somatics” against “psychics” 358c) Revolution, reform in medicine and the psychiatric paradigm (Griesinger) 385 Conclusion 427V. APPENDIXCriteria for the historiography of psychiatry 429Notes 447I. Introduction 447P. UK 451III. France 469IV. Germany 482V. Appendix 515Bibliography 518Subject index 532