Keyword

insanity

Description: Insanity is a historically used medical and legal term for severe mental disturbance, particularly in discussions of diagnosis, treatment, and responsibility.

Primary topic: Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (47%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q505619

OpenAlex ID: keywords/insanity

"The ghost in the machine".

1968 · A Koestler · PubMed · 1,921

Manic Depressive Insanity and Paranoia

1921 · Emil Kraepelin · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease · 1,315

Madness and Civilization

2006 · Kevin White · The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society · 1,111

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason.

1966 · Louis L. Lunsky · Archives of Internal Medicine · 853

A treatise on insanity and other disorders affecting the mind.

1835 · James Cowles Prichard · 516

The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues about the So-Called Psychopathic Personality

1950 · Cleckley, Hervey M. (Hervey Milton), 1903-1984. · JAMA · 463

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Madness and Civilization

2003 · Michel Foucault · Routledge eBooks · 423

A Study of Association in Insanity

1910 · Grace Helen Kent, A. J. Rosanoff · American Journal of Psychiatry · 404

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Genetics and Reductionism

1998 · Sahotra Sarkar · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 387

Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology

1996 · Sally Shuttleworth · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 360

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

1896 · Andrew Dickson White · The American Historical Review · 353

A treatise on insanity.

1806 · Philippe Pinel · Messers, Cadell & Davies, Strand eBooks · 351

Die erscheinungsformen des Irreseins

1920 · E. Kraepelin · Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie · 343

An Experimental Study of the Ocular Reactions of the Insane From Photographic Records.

1908 · ALLEN ROSS DIEFENDORF, RAYMOND DODGE · Brain · 326

Die Erscheinungsformen des Irreseins

1992 · Emil Kraepelin · History of Psychiatry · 297

Madness: A Brief History

2002 · Roy Porter · 295

Definition of insanity.

1984 · W T Wells · PubMed · 288

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law

2011 · Oxford University Press eBooks · 237

Delusions as “Wrong Beliefs”: A Conceptual History

1991 · G. E. Berrios · The British Journal of Psychiatry · 234

Emigration and insanity

1932 · Ørnulv Ødegaard · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 219

Quantitative aspects of evolution of concepts: An experimental study.

1920 · Clark L. Hull · The Psychological Monographs · 219

Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry.

1906 · JAMA · 212

Embodied selves: an anthology of psychological texts 1830 - 1890

1998 · Jenny Bourne Taylor, Sally Shuttleworth · Figshare · 207

Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man

1970 · Thomas Szasz · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 203

The Psychological Journal

1855 · The Asylum Journal · 193

Works count: 16,170

Citation count: 39,290