Sex, religion, and the making of modern madness the Eberbach Asylum and German society, 1815-1849 - Goldberg, Ann (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and index
The Duchy of Nassau and the Eberbach Asylum -- Religious madness in the Vormärz : culture, politics, and the professionalization of psychiatry -- Religious madness and the formation of patients -- Medical representations of sexual madness : nymphomania and masturbatory insanity -- Doctors and patients : the practice(s) of nymphomania -- Women, sex, and rural life -- Masturbatory insanity and delinquency -- Jews and the criminalization of madness
Drawing upon a rich set of asylum patient case records, this book reconstructs the encounter of state officials and medical practitioners with peasant madness and deviancy at a transitional period in German and psychiatry history. Focusing on religious madness, nymphomania, masturbatory insanity, and Jewishness, this study probes the daily encounters in which psychiatric categories were applied, experienced, and resisted in the settings of family, village, and insane asylum.; Goldberg's careful examination sheds light on a range of issues concerning gender, sexuality, religious politics, class relations, state-building, and anti-Semitism