This course will provide an overview of the history of madness from the point of view of people who were, and are, deemed “mad”. The purpose of this course is to place the diverse perspectives of people diagnosed as mad, insane or mentally ill as being of central importance in the history of psychiatry, and to address the question: how madness has been viewed by mad people over the centuries. Lect: 3 hrs. Course Weight: 1.00 Billing Units: 1
