Download or read book Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness written by Ann E. Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.