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Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value de Nima Bassiri

Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value

Autor Nima Bassiri
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 ian 2024

Evoluția istoriografiei psihiatrice a migrat în ultimele decenii de la o analiză pur clinică spre o înțelegere a modului în care structurile sociale și economice definesc normalitatea. Reținem că Madness and Enterprise marchează un punct de cotitură în acest parcurs, investigând cum, începând cu secolul al XIX-lea, severitatea bolii mentale a încetat să fie doar o chestiune de dezechilibru biologic, devenind o măsură a productivității economice. Considerăm remarcabilă demonstrația autorului Nima Bassiri privind modul în care psihiatrii din Europa de Vest și Statele Unite au început să utilizeze capacitatea de gestionare a banilor ca un indicator diagnostic mai fiabil decât incertitudinile evaluării stării mentale subiective.

Lucrarea completează perspectiva oferită de English Madness de Vieda Skultans, care se concentra pe dihotomia dintre geniu și defectul de echilibru, adăugând o dimensiune crucială: rațiunea economică. În timp ce Vieda Skultans analiza fundamentele morale, Nima Bassiri arată cum valoarea morală a fost recalibrată în funcție de capacitatea de a genera bogăție. De asemenea, față de abordarea vastă din Madness de Petteri Pietikäinen, această lucrare oferă o analiză mult mai aplicată asupra modului în care „nebunia” a fost convertită într-o formă economică ce putea fi răscumpărată sau chiar venerată.

Această cercetare se înscrie organic în opera autorului, continuând interogațiile din Plasticity and Pathology – On the Formation of the Neural Subject. Dacă în lucrarea anterioară Nima Bassiri explora formarea subiectului neural prin prisma plasticității, în volumul de față el extinde analiza către exterior, către piață, demonstrând că identitatea subiectului modern este indisolubil legată de valoarea sa patologică în sistemul economic.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226830896
ISBN-10: 0226830896
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 6 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cercetătorii în istoria medicinei și economie, această carte oferă o perspectivă inedită asupra originilor psihiatriei moderne. Cititorul va înțelege cum evaluarea clinică a fost modelată de normele financiare și cum conceptul de sănătate mintală a devenit, istoric, sinonim cu eficiența economică. Este o lectură densă, esențială pentru a descifra mecanismele prin care societatea modernă atribuie valoare individului.

Despre autor

Nima Bassiri este un cercetător preocupat de intersecția dintre istoria științei, filosofie și medicină. Opera sa explorează modul în care subiectivitatea umană este construită la granița dintre biologie și structurile sociale. Anterior, a coordonat volumul Plasticity and Pathology – On the Formation of the Neural Subject, unde a analizat relația dintre sistemul nervos și experiența umană. În prezent, prin Madness and Enterprise, publicată la University of Chicago Press, Bassiri își consolidează poziția de expert în analiza modului în care rațiunea economică a colonizat gândirea psihiatrică în spațiul Nord-Atlantic.

Descriere scurtă

Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against a patient’s economic productivity.
 
Madness and Enterprise reveals the economic norms embedded within psychiatric thinking about mental illness in the North Atlantic world. Over the course of the nineteenth century, various forms of madness were subjected to a style of psychiatric reasoning that was preoccupied with money. Psychiatrists across Western Europe and the United States attributed financial and even moral value to an array of pathological conditions, such that some mental disorders were seen as financial assets and others as economic liabilities. By turning to economic conduct and asking whether potential patients appeared capable of managing their financial affairs or even generating wealth, psychiatrists could often bypass diagnostic uncertainties about a person’s mental state.

Through an exploration of the intertwined histories of psychiatry and economic thought, Nima Bassiri shows how this relationship transformed the very idea of value in the modern North Atlantic, as the most common forms of social valuation—moral value, medical value, and economic value—were rendered equivalent and interchangeable. If what was good and what was healthy were increasingly conflated with what was remunerative (and vice versa), then a conceptual space opened through which madness itself could be converted into an economic form and subsequently redeemed—and even revered.

Notă biografică

Nima Bassiri is assistant professor of literature at Duke University, where he is also the codirector of the Institute for Critical Theory.

Recenzii

“Bassiri has made a valuable addition to the study of the human and behavioral sciences, bringing new insights from the critical study of capitalism to his subject. . . . Historians of nineteenth-century psychiatry will be interested in his compelling reading of psychiatric debates. Psychiatrists committed to radical disciplinary reform will be stimulated by the proposals in the conclusion. Moreover, the book’s conceptual and methodological interventions will be relevant broadly to historians of the human and behavioral sciences from the nineteenth century to the present—although Bassiri’s narrative stops in the early twentieth century, we are certainly still living in a world shaped by the economic reason of madness.”

“Bassiri offers a rich blend of social theory, history, and philosophy of the human sciences to uncover what he terms a new ‘economization of madness’ that emerged at the turn of the last century. . . . For readers interested in the fascinating ‘borderlands’ of human behavior not clearly legible as either sane or insane, this book is a rewarding, provocative read.”

“Lucid and thought-provoking . . . Readers with an interest in the histories of mental science and capitalism will enjoy Bassiri’s skillful analyses and find Madness and Enterprise a rewarding read.” 

“The book offers an extremely interesting and rather understudied perspective. It is very well-written, well-researched and contains a plethora of innovative arguments. Apart from showing how madness became central to economic rationalization, it engages in a critique of modern capitalism based on the irrationality of its social order. . . . This is a fascinating work that would appeal not only to academics, but also to those who are interested in the nature of the interdisciplinary exchange between economics and psychological sciences, and also in the conceptual underpinnings of modern capitalism.”

“Recommended.”

“Explores how economic reasoning has been adopted by psychiatric clinicians and researchers in order to facilitate diagnostic assessments about potential psychiatric patients on the basis of their apparent economic behaviors, focusing on how economic value came to comprise part of the ontology of madness.”

“In this smart and sophisticated book, Bassiri shows us how an economic style of reasoning came to permeate psychiatry at the turn of the century. Not only were economic and psychiatric metaphors constantly entangled with one another but madness itself became central to economic rationalization. This book offers us a radically new perspective on the history of psychiatry. It also puts forth a fascinating philosophy of psychiatry which places irrationalism at the heart of modern capitalism.”

“For too long, we have accepted a contrast between madness and reason and all the more so between madness and economics. But Bassiri brilliantly demonstrates how our conceptions of madness and moral value are shot through with economic ideas, that in modern societies madness has had a fully economic rationality, that this economic rationality matters for social thought as much as for psychiatric treatments. In a historical epistemology that forces us to reread classics of modern psychology as much as relearn its story through half-forgotten intellectuals, he offers something truly original: a theory of suffering amid capitalist enterprise, and of the ways in which we can imagine a form of care unbound by a century and a half of transactional thinking.”