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

ISBN: 0271077107

ISBN13: 9780271077109

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

(Part of the Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies Series)

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...

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