Since its publication in 1989, Console and Classify has become a classic work in the history of science and in French intellectual history. Now with a new afterword, this much-cited and much-discussed book gives readers the chance to revisit the rise of psychiatry in nineteenth-century France, the shape it took and why, and its importance both then and in contemporary society. "Goldstein has raised our understanding of the politics of psychiatric professionalization on to a new plane."--Roy Porter, Times Higher ...
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Since its publication in 1989, Console and Classify has become a classic work in the history of science and in French intellectual history. Now with a new afterword, this much-cited and much-discussed book gives readers the chance to revisit the rise of psychiatry in nineteenth-century France, the shape it took and why, and its importance both then and in contemporary society. "Goldstein has raised our understanding of the politics of psychiatric professionalization on to a new plane."--Roy Porter, Times Higher Education Supplement "[A]n historiographical tour de force, quite simply the most insightful work on the subject in English or any other language. . . . [A] work of distinctive originality. . . . It is written with lucidity and elegance, even a certain confident scholarly panache, that make it a pleasure to read."--Toby Gelfand, Social History "Exhaustively researched, elegantly written, and persuasively argued, Console and Classify is an excellent example of the . . . sociologically informed intellectual history, stimulated by Kuhn and Foucault."--Robert Alun Jones, American Journal of Sociology
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Good in Very Good jacket. Maroon cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 414pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has mild wear to corners and spine ends, binding tight, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, text has ink underlining and marginalia throughout. DJ has rubbing, toning, small ink scribble to rear panel. READING/STUDY COPY ONLY.
Add this copy of Console and Classify: the French Psychiatric Profession to cart. $49.00, very good condition, Sold by Edmonton Book Store rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Edmonton, AB, CANADA, published 1987 by Cambridge Univesity Press.
Add this copy of Console and Classify: the French Psychiatric Profession to cart. $51.13, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Cambridge University Press.
I highly recommend this work especially for the practitioner interested in the earliest developments in the modern practice of psychotherapy. The author displays the thinking and practice (and their social context) of the pioneers who attempted to understand and treat mental illness in ways different from the barbaric (as they saw them) methods that preceded them.
