Free Download Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era By Peter McCandless
1996 | 424 Pages | ISBN: 0807822515 | PDF | 6 MB
Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madnessis a social history of the perceptions and treatment of the mentally ill in South Carolina over two centuries. Examining insanity in both an institutional and a community context, Peter McCandless shows how policies and attitudes changed dramatically from the colonial era to the early twentieth century. He also sheds new light on the ways sectionalism and race affected the plight of the insane in a state whose fortunes worsened markedly after the Civil War. Antebellum asylum reformers in the state were inspired by many of the same ideals as their northern counterparts, such as therapeutic optimism and moral treatment. But McCandless shows that treatment ideologies in South Carolina, which had a majority black population, were complicated by the issue of race, and that blacks received markedly inferior care. By re-creating the different experiences of the insane--black and white, inside the asylum and within the community--McCandless highlights the importance of regional variation in the treatment of mental illness.

Free Download Andrew Scull, "Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine"
English | 2015 | pages: 432 | ISBN: 0691166153, 0500252122, 0691173443 | PDF | 85,7 mb
A beautifully illustrated history of the human encounter with unreason

Free Download Chloé Deambrogio, "Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference: A History of Mental Illness in the Criminal Court "
English | ISBN: 1503630323 | 2023 | 300 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference, Chloé Deambrogio explores how developments in the field of forensic psychiatry shaped American courts' assessments of defendants' mental health and criminal responsibility over the course of the twentieth century. During this period, new psychiatric notions of the mind and its readability, legal doctrines of insanity and diminished culpability, and cultural stereotypes about race and gender shaped the ways in which legal professionals, mental health experts, and lay witnesses approached mental disability evidence, especially in cases carrying the death penalty. Using Texas as a case study, Deambrogio examines how these medical, legal, and cultural trends shaped psycho-legal debates in state criminal courts, while shedding light on the ways in which experts and lay actors' interpretations of "pathological" mental states influenced trial verdicts in capital cases. She shows that despite mounting pressures from advocates of the "rehabilitative penology," Texas courts maintained a punitive approach towards defendants allegedly affected by severe mental disabilities, while allowing for moralized views about personalities, habits, and lifestyle to influence psycho-legal assessments, in potentially prejudicial ways.

Free Download The Certification of Insanity: Local Origins and Imperial Consequences
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031427416 | 446 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 18 MB
This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. Considering a variety of legal, archival, and published sources, it traces the origins and dissemination of a peculiar method for determining mental unsoundness defined as the 'Victorian system'. Shaped by the dynamics surrounding the clandestine committal of wealthy Londoners in private madhouses, this system featured three distinctive tenets: standardized forms, independent medical examinations, and written facts of insanity. Despite their complexity, Victorian certificates achieved a remarkable success. Not only did they survive in the UK for more than a century, but they also served as a model for the development of mental health laws around the world. By the start of the Second World War, more than seventy colonial and non-colonial jurisdictions adopted the Victorian formula for making lunacy official with some countries still relying on it to this very day. Using case studies from Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific, this book charts the temporal and geographical trajectory of an imperial technology used to determine a person's destiny. Shifting the focus from metropolitan policies to colonial dynamics, and from macro developments to micro histories, it explores the perspectives of families, doctors, and public officials as they began to deal with the delicate business of certification. This book will be of interest to scholars working on mental health policy, the history of medicine, disability studies, and the British Empire.

Jeff Dunham Spark Of Insanity 2007 INT 1080p BluRay x264 AAC5 1-LAMA

Jeff Dunham and his socially reckless "suitcase posse" are back in this highly anticipated follow-up to Arguing with Myself, his breakthrough television special! What's next? An ALL NEW show that is Bigger... Better... and Funnier than ever! This time, Dunham welcomes two never-before-seen partners "Achmed the Dead Terrorist," and "Melvin the Superhero." Long-time favorites "Peanut," "Walter" and Jose Jalapeno...On a STEEK! are back in an entirely original show for everyone!

Language: Unknown language
1.49 GB | 01:20:25 | 2250 Kbps | avc1 | 1920x1080 | mp4a-40-2, 48 Khz, 6 channels
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Jeff Dunham, Paige Dunham
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Jeff Dunham Spark Of Insanity 2007 INT 1080p BluRay x264 AAC5 1-LAMA

Jeff Dunham and his socially reckless "suitcase posse" are back in this highly anticipated follow-up to Arguing with Myself, his breakthrough television special! What's next? An ALL NEW show that is Bigger... Better... and Funnier than ever! This time, Dunham welcomes two never-before-seen partners "Achmed the Dead Terrorist," and "Melvin the Superhero." Long-time favorites "Peanut," "Walter" and Jose Jalapeno...On a STEEK! are back in an entirely original show for everyone!

Language: Unknown language
1.49 GB | 01:20:25 | 2250 Kbps | avc1 | 1920x1080 | mp4a-40-2, 48 Khz, 6 channels
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Jeff Dunham, Paige Dunham
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Free Download It's Insanity: The Bizarre Story of a Bipolar Megalomaniac's Insane Plan for Total World Domination (Audiobook)
English | January 11, 2021 | ASIN: B08SJTFY4K | MP3@64 kbps | 4h 15m | 100.66 MB
Author: Matthew B. Cox
Narrator: Keith Madison Miller
As Frank Amodeo met with President George W. Bush at the White House to discuss NATO operations in Afghanistan, no one knew that he'd already embezzled nearly $200 million from the federal government - money he intended to use to bankroll his plan to take over the world.

Size: 262.98 MB | Total Duration: 01:52:59 | Total Tracks: 36
Format: MPEG Audio | 320 Kbps
Album: Insanity - New Bangers
Artist: VA
Genre: Pop
Date/Year: 2023

Julie Selby, "Infertility Insanity: When sheer hope "
English | ISBN: 1771410248 | 2015 | 188 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Infertility is a roller coaster, an emotional ride full of hopeful highs and devastating lows. There are times when you think you are losing your mind and there are times when you do. If you are struggling with infertility and are ready to jump off a cliff when another of your friends announces they are pregnant, you need to read this. This is the story of one woman's journey through infertility and everything she tried from the traditional to the bizarre; the impact on her relationship; her bank balance and her sanity. Witty, irreverent and deeply honest, it's everything you should know, but no one dares tells you, about being "unfertile."

Stop Mass Hysteria: America's Insanity from the Salem Witch Trials to the Trump Witch Hunt (Audiobook)
English | 09 October 2018 | ASIN: B07HHD7DDC | M4B@62 kbps | 10h 23m | 283.07 MB
Author: Michael Savage
Narrator: Barry Baer
Number one New York Times best-selling author Michael Savage calls out the mass hysteria mongers and their methods, and shows Americans that we must look to history to understand the present and avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.