Università Roma Tre

Mental Illness in the Modern age

The first part of the course will primarily be characterized by an ample introduction to the methodology with which the fundamental elements of cultural history are delineated. The initial sessions of the course will explore the characteristics of the disease of mental illness in the modern age, including diagnosis, treatment and care.

La malattia mentale in Età Moderna

P. Burke, Storia culturale, Bologna, il Mulino
M. Foucault, Storia della follia nell'età classica (a cura di M. Galzigna), Milano, BUR

Mental Illness in the Modern age

In the second part of the course, the social meaning of mental illness and suffering will be analyzed, especially in the first centuries of the modern age, that is to say in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (although there will be no lack of in-depth exploration of these issues, for the most part through a comparison with later and more recent eras). Finally, interdisciplinary incursions will be made into the history of art, literature, philosophy, and the history of cinema.

Lisa Roscioni, Il governo della Follia. Ospedali, medici e pazzi nell’età moderna, Milano, Bruno Mondadori
(il secondo testo verrà definito a breve)