TY - BOOK AU - Beller,Steven AU - Blackshaw,Gemma AU - Heighton,Luke AU - Howes,Geoffrey C. AU - Imrie,Nicola AU - Kuhn,Frank AU - Lehninger,Anna AU - Müller,Thomas AU - Plumley,Gavin AU - Steward,Jill AU - Wieber,Sabine TI - Journeys Into Madness: Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire T2 - Austrian and Habsburg Studies SN - 9780857454584 AV - RC450.A9 J68 2012 U1 - 362.196/89009436 23 PY - 2012///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Medicine in literature KW - Mental health services KW - Austria KW - History KW - Mental illness KW - Mentally ill KW - HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary KW - bisacsh KW - History: 20th Century to Present, Cultural Studies (General), Sociology N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Figures --; Introduction --; 1. The Mad Objects of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Journeys, Contexts and Dislocations in the Exhibition ‘Madness and Modernity’ --; 2. Solving Riddles: Freud, Vienna and the Historiography of Madness --; 3. Symphonies and Psychosis in Mahler’s Vienna --; 4. Creating an Appropriate Social Milieu: Journeys to Health at a Sanatorium for Nervous Disorders --; 5. Travel to the Spas: The Growth of Health Tourism in Central Europe, 1850–1914 --; 6. Vienna’s Most Fashionable Neurasthenic: Empress Sisi and the Cult of Size Zero --; 7. Peter Altenberg: Authoring Madness in Vienna circa 1900 --; 8. ‘Hell Is Not Interesting, It Is Terrifying’: A Reading of the Madhouse Chapter in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities --; 9. Reason Dazzled: Klimt, Krakauer and the Eyes of the Medusa --; 10. Mapping the Sanatorium: Heinrich Obersteiner and the Art of Psychiatric Patients in Oberdöbling around 1900 --; 11. The Württemberg Asylum of Schussenried: A Psychiatric Space and Its Encounter with Literature and Culture from the ‘Outside’ --; Select Bibliography --; Notes on Contributors --; INDEX; restricted access N2 - At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud’s investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this ‘territory’ in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art works produced by patients and writers were developing innovative literary techniques to convey a character’s interior life. This collection of essays uses the framework of journeys in order to highlight the diverse artistic, cultural and medical responses to a peculiarly Viennese anxiety about the madness of modern times. The travellers of these journeys vary from patients to doctors, artists to writers, architects to composers and royalty to tourists; in engaging with their histories, the contributors reveal the different ways in which madness was experienced and represented in ‘Vienna 1900’ UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857454591 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857454591 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857454591/original ER -