Freedom and the Cage: Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890 1914

by Leslie Topp

Spurred by ideals of individual liberty that took hold in the Western world in the late nineteenth century, psychiatrists and public officials sought to reinvent asylums as large-scale, totally designed institutions that offered a level of freedom and normality impossible in the outside world. This volume explores the "caged freedom" that this new psychiatric ethos represented by analyzing seven such buildings established in the Austro-Hungarian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271077107
• ISBN13: 9780271077109
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 10.2"