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.

Chi tiết về thư mục
Tác giả khác: Eghigian, Greg, 1961- (Biên tập viên)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2010]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj05c
Mục lục:
  • 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.