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Published on: April 9, 2014
'My insanity in the year 1783', by C.S. Andresen (1801)
Johan Schioldann1, German E Berrios2
1University of Adelaide, Australia.
Abstract:
The literature of the past has included self-reports by the mentally ill since before Roy Porter reminded us that their views and experiences constitute an important document for historians of psychiatry. The value of these self-reports can be enhanced if their potential biases and informational power are duly determined. This Classic Text concerns a self-report of a form of periodic madness written by an eighteenth-century Danish vicar. It shows how the same document can be presented in a more or less neutral fashion by a medical historian (Maar) or used as 'evidence' for some 'ontological' view of madness by a clinician (Rasmussen).
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