Ebook: Encyclopedia of asylum therapeutics, 1750/1950s
Author: De Young Mary
- Tags: Mental health -- Treatment -- History. Psychiatric hospitals -- History. Mental Disorders -- therapy -- Encyclopedias -- English. Commitment of Mentally Ill -- history -- Encyclopedias -- English. History 18th Century -- Encyclopedias -- English. History 19th Century -- Encyclopedias -- English. History 20th Century -- Encyclopedias -- English. Hospitals
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: McFarland & Company
- Language: English
- epub
"The mentally ill have always been with us, but once confined in institutions their treatment has not always been of much interest or concern. Using published reports, studies, and personal narratives of doctors and patients, this book reveals how therapeutics have always been embedded in their particular social and historical moment"--Provided by publisher.
Abstract: "The mentally ill have always been with us, but once confined in institutions their treatment has not always been of much interest or concern. Using published reports, studies, and personal narratives of doctors and patients, this book reveals how therapeutics have always been embedded in their particular social and historical moment"--Provided by publisher