Encountering crises of the mind : madness, culture and society, 1200s-1900s / edited by Tuomas Laine-Frigren, Jari Eilola, Markku Hokkanen.

Leiden : Boston ; Brill, [2019]

xi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Sufferers, specialists, spaces and society : historical approaches to crises of the mind / Tuomas Laine-Frigren, Markku Hokkanen and Jari Eilola -- Medical knowledge of mental disorders and their cure in Latin and vernacular culture in later Medieval Europe / Susanna Niiranen -- Defining and treating madness in local communities of early modern Finland / Jari Eilola -- Melancholy, race and slavery in the early modern southern Atlantic world / Kalle Kananoja -- Hospitalised : patients' voices in 19th-century Finnish newspapers / Kirsi Tuohela -- Despair in Finnish : consultation by correspondence in Fin-De-Siecle Finland / Anssi Halmesvirta -- In the gray area : patient records, somatic treatments and the history of psychiatry in Denmark, 1936-1956 / Jesper Vaczy Kragh -- Treatment and rehabilitation : patients at work in Finnish mental institutions / Anu Rissanen -- Emotionally neglected or deviant?: treating childhood neuroses in Communist Hungary during the early 1960s / Tuomas Laine-Frigren -- Psychiatry at the periphery : the case of princely India, c. 1830-1900 / Waltraud Ernst -- 'Madness', emotions and loss of control in a Colonial frontier : methodological challenges of crises of mind / Markku Hokkanen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.