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The Mentally Ill in America - A History of Their Care and Treatment from Colonial Times
- 574 pages
- English
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eBook - ePub
The Mentally Ill in America - A History of Their Care and Treatment from Colonial Times
About this book
This fascinating book traces the evolution of a cultural pattern as represented by the way in which people through the years have thought and felt about the so-called insane. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Yes, you can access The Mentally Ill in America - A History of Their Care and Treatment from Colonial Times by Albert Deutsch in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & History & Theory in Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Author’s Foreword
- I. Prophets, Demons and Witches
- II. Colonial America: The Old World Heritage
- III. Colonial Provisions for the Mentally Ill: Punishment, Repression and Indifference
- IV. Rational Humanitarianism: The Beginnings of Reform
- V. Benjamin Rush: The Father of American Psychiatry
- VI. The Rise of Moral Treatment
- VII. Retrogression: Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
- VIII. The Cult of Curability and the Rise of State Institutions
- IX. Dorothea Lynde Dix: Militant Crusader
- X. Mid-Century Psychiatrists
- XI. Conflict of Theories: Restraint or Non–Restraint?
- XII. The Trend Toward State Care
- XIII. State Care: Exodus from the Poorhouse
- XIV. Psychiatry Emerges from Isolation
- XV. The Mental Hygiene Movement and its Founder
- XVI. Historical Backgrounds of Mental Defect
- XVII. Changing Concepts in Mental Defect
- XVIII. Insanity and the Criminal Law
- XIX. Our Commitment Laws
- XX. Modern Trends in Institutional Care and Treatment
- XXI. Towards Mental Hygiene
- Bibliography
- Index