Freedom and the Cage

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780271077109

Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890-1914

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By Leslie Topp
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Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Free Institution

2 Regions, Nationalism, and the Asylum as a Political Project

3 “A White City Shimmering”: The Rhetorical Heightening of Control

4 Utopia in Process in Vienna’s Hinterland

5 Spaces

6 Boundaries

Conclusions and Proposals

Appendix: New Psychiatric Hospitals Built in the Habsburg Empire After 1898

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“The histories presented in Freedom and the Cage . . . are all the more timely as Central European societies consider the reform of mental health care and the role that institutional hospitals may continue to have into the 21st century.”

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