Dangerous Passions: The Modern Origins of Medicalization of Emotions

Marco Solinas

doi:10.1484/J.EYHP.5.116296

Dangerous Passions: The Modern Origins of Medicalization of Emotions

Marco Solinas

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

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Abstract

This essay aims to show the origins of the very process of the medicalisation and true pathologisation of passions and emotions that can be found at the "birth" of the discipline of "psychiatry" in Philippe Pinel and also in Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, with particular regard to their books Medico-philosophical Treatise on Mental Alienation and The passions considered as causes, symptoms and means of cure in cases of insanity. Attention is focused on the crucial idea that passions are seen as a cause of mental illness in a narrow sense: the point is that their dangerosité is understood as something that can even lead to hospitalization.

Lingua originale	English
pagine (da-a)	67-80
Numero di pagine	14
Rivista	European Yearbook of the History of Psychology
Volume	4
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1484/J.EYHP.5.116296
Stato di pubblicazione	Pubblicato - 2018

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Esquirol
Passions
Pinel

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