From madness to mental health : psychiatric disorder and its treatment in Western civilization /

A unique anthology of readings, from ancient times to the present, that considers how mental disorders have historically challenged the ways in which humans have understood and valued their bodies, minds, and souls.

Bibliografiske detaljer
Andre forfattere: Eghigian, Greg, 1961- (Editor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2010]
Online adgang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj05c
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • The ancient world
  • Medieval and early modern Europe
  • Enlightenment, romanticism, and reform
  • The asylum
  • Brain science, nerves, and clinical psychiatry
  • War and neurosis
  • The new focus on the body
  • Psychiatric eugenics in Nazi Germany
  • Mental illness, psychiatry, and communism
  • Antipsychiatry, social psychiatry, and deinstitutionalization
  • The psychoboom.