12. Constructing Schizophrenia as a Category of Mental Illness

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Plates ix
4. Preface xiii
5. 1. Depicting Disease: A Theory of Representing Illness 1
6. 2. Madness and Representation: Toward a History of Visualizing Madness 18
7. 3. The Rediscovery of the Body: Leonardo's First Image of Human Sexuality and Disease 50
8. 4. Masturbation and Anxiety: Henry Mackenzie, Heinrich von Kleist, William James 63
9. 5. Images of the Asylum: Charles Dickens and Charles Davies 81
10. 6. The Insane See the Insane: Richard Dadd 98
11. 7. The Insane See the Insane: Vincent Van Gogh 112
12. 8. The Science of Visualizing the Insane: Charles Darwin 127
13. 9. Medical Colonialism and Disease: Lam Qua and the Creation of a Westernized Medical Iconography in Nineteenth-Century China 140
14. 10. Opera, Homosexuality, and Models of Disease: Richard Strauss's Salome in the Context of Images of Disease in the Fin de Siecle 155
15. 11. Constructing the Image of the Appropriate Therapist: The Struggle of Psychiatry with Psychoanalysis 182
16. 12. Constructing Schizophrenia as a Category of Mental Illness 202
17. 13. Seeing the Schizophrenic: On the "Bizarre" in Psychiatry and Art 231
18. 14. Seeing the AIDS Patient 245
19. Index 313