Best Minds examines the complex relationships between mental illness, psychiatry, trauma, poetry, and prophecyâ using the access Ginsberg generously shared to offer new, lively, and indispensable insights into an American icon. Weine also provides new understandings of the paternalism, treatment failures, ethical lapses, and limitations of American psychiatry of the 1940s and 1950s.
Best Minds examines the complex relationships between mental illness, psychiatry, trauma, poetry, and prophecyâ using the access Ginsberg generously shared to offer new, lively, and indispensable insights into an American icon. Weine also provides new understandings of the paternalism, treatment failures, ethical lapses, and limitations of American psychiatry of the 1940s and 1950s.
Prologue vii 1 Death and Madness, 1997-1998 1 2 An Unspeakable Act, 1986-1987 14 3 Refrain of the Hospitals and the New Vision, 1943-1948 32 4 The Actuality of Prophecy, 1948-1949 63 5 The Psychiatric Institute, 1949-1950 89 6 Mental Muse-eries, 1950-1955 135 7 Gold Blast of Light, 1956-1959 163 8 A Light Raying through Society, 1959-1965 204 9 White and Black Shrouds, 1987 227 Epilogue 237 Acknowledgments 251 Notes 253 Index 271
Prologue vii 1 Death and Madness, 1997-1998 1 2 An Unspeakable Act, 1986-1987 14 3 Refrain of the Hospitals and the New Vision, 1943-1948 32 4 The Actuality of Prophecy, 1948-1949 63 5 The Psychiatric Institute, 1949-1950 89 6 Mental Muse-eries, 1950-1955 135 7 Gold Blast of Light, 1956-1959 163 8 A Light Raying through Society, 1959-1965 204 9 White and Black Shrouds, 1987 227 Epilogue 237 Acknowledgments 251 Notes 253 Index 271
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