Ebook: The quest for mental health: a tale of science, medicine, scandal, sorrow, and mass society
Author: Dowbiggin Ian Robert
- Tags: Mental health, Personality, Emotions, Mental Health, history, Mental Disorders, history, Gesellschaft, Psychische Störung, Sozioökonomisches System, Psychische Gesundheit, Psychohygiene, Förderung, Psychosoziale Versorgung, Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Gesundheitspolitik, USA, Kanada
- Series: Cambridge essential histories
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- City: New York, Kanada., USA
- Language: English
- epub
"This is the story of one of the most far-reaching human endeavors in history: the quest for mental well-being. From its origins in the eighteenth century to its wide scope in the early twenty-first, this search for emotional health and welfare has cost billions. In the name of mental health, millions around the world have been tranquilized, institutionalized, psycho-analyzed, sterilized, lobotomized and even Read more...
Abstract:
The incidence of mental and emotional illness continues to rise; yet as Ian Dowbiggin shows, the quest for happiness continues. Dowbiggin argues that this trend will persist as long as the cultures Read more...
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