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Author : William Briska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981562674
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (626 download)
Download or read book The History of Elgin Mental Health Center written by William Briska and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Elgin History Mental Health Center in Elgin, Illinois
Author : Clifford Whittingham Beers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Mental Hygiene Movement written by Clifford Whittingham Beers and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mab Segrest
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620972980
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Administrations of Lunacy written by Mab Segrest and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whew! They going to send around here and tie you up and drag you off to Milledgeville. Them fat blue police chasing tomcats around alleys." —Berenice in The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers A scathing and original look at the racist origins of the field of modern psychiatry, told through the story of what was once the largest mental institution in the world, by the prize-winning author of Memoir of a Race Traitor After a decade of research, Mab Segrest, whose Memoir of a Race Traitor forever changed the way we think about race in America, turns sanity itself inside-out in a stunning book that will become an instant classic. In December 1841, the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum was founded on land taken from the Cherokee nation in the then-State capitol of Milledgeville. A hundred years later, it had become the largest insane asylum in the world with over ten thousand patients. To this day, it is the site of the largest graveyard of disabled and mentally ill people in the world. In April, 1949, Ebony magazine reported that for black patients, "the situation approaches Nazi concentration camp standards . . . unbelievable this side of Dante's Inferno." Georgia's state hospital was at the center of psychiatric practice and the forefront of psychiatric thought throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in America—centuries during which the South invented, fought to defend, and then worked to replace the most developed slave culture since the Roman Empire. A landmark history of a single insane asylum at Milledgeville, Georgia, A Peculiar Inheritance reveals how modern-day American psychiatry was forged in the traumas of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, when African Americans carrying "no histories" entered from Freedmen's Bureau Hospitals and home counties wracked with Klan terror. This history set the stage for the eugenics and degeneracy theories of the twentieth century, which in turn became the basis for much of Nazi thinking in Europe. Segrest's masterwork will forever change the way we think about our own minds.
Author : Agnes Miles
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780632039081
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Effective Clinical Practice written by Agnes Miles and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997-01-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective Clinical Practice synthesizes the ways in which advances in modern clinical practice can be achieved. Just two of these are the introduction of research evidence into routine clinical practice, and critical evaluation of the effectiveness, appropriateness and efficiency of healthcare delivery. The authors also address current concerns of healthcare purchasers, managers, and clinicians about: developing quality, purchasing quality, auditing and evaluating patient care, issues regarding clinical interventions, and legal issues concerning the use of clinical standards and practice guidelines. The last chapter puts into perspective patients' experiences of clinical audit and evidence-based care. By providing a comprehensive review and systematic investigation of all these issues, this book stimulates debate and adds considerably to our knowledge. This book will undoubtedly be of great interest to doctors, clinicians, healthcare purchasers and managers, health scientists, academics, and undergraduate and postgraduate students of health sciences.
Author : National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain)
Publisher : RCPsych Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781908020314
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Common Mental Health Disorders written by National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain) and published by RCPsych Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together treatment and referral advice from existing guidelines, this text aims to improve access to services and recognition of common mental health disorders in adults and provide advice on the principles that need to be adopted to develop appropriate referral and local care pathways.
Author : National Committee for Mental Hygiene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book State Hospitals in the Depression written by National Committee for Mental Hygiene and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Payne
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262013495
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Asylum written by Christopher Payne and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals. For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas Story Kirkbride: a central administration building flanked symmetrically by pavilions and surrounded by lavish grounds with pastoral vistas. Kirkbride and others believed that well-designed buildings and grounds, a peaceful environment, a regimen of fresh air, and places for work, exercise, and cultural activities would heal mental illness. But in the second half of the twentieth century, after the introduction of psychotropic drugs and policy shifts toward community-based care, patient populations declined dramatically, leaving many of these beautiful, massive buildings—and the patients who lived in them—neglected and abandoned. Architect and photographer Christopher Payne spent six years documenting the decay of state mental hospitals like these, visiting seventy institutions in thirty states. Through his lens we see splendid, palatial exteriors (some designed by such prominent architects as H. H. Richardson and Samuel Sloan) and crumbling interiors—chairs stacked against walls with peeling paint in a grand hallway; brightly colored toothbrushes still hanging on a rack; stacks of suitcases, never packed for the trip home. Accompanying Payne's striking and powerful photographs is an essay by Oliver Sacks (who described his own experience working at a state mental hospital in his book Awakenings). Sacks pays tribute to Payne's photographs and to the lives once lived in these places, “where one could be both mad and safe.”
Author : Carla Yanni
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816649396
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (493 download)
Download or read book The Architecture of Madness written by Carla Yanni and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session
Author : Thomas Story Kirkbride
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane written by Thomas Story Kirkbride and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard L. Lael
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826265545
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Evolution of a Missouri Asylum written by Richard L. Lael and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traces the history of Missouri's first state mental institution, the Fulton State Hospital, founded in 1851. This institutional history examines a century and a half of changing attitudes toward mental illness, evolving treatments as medical and psychiatric science sought cures and the continuing administrative challenges of overcrowding and chronic underfunding"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309038324
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have always been homeless people in the United States, but their plight has only recently stirred widespread public reaction and concern. Part of this new recognition stems from the problem's prevalence: the number of homeless individuals, while hard to pin down exactly, is rising. In light of this, Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to find out whether existing health care programs were ignoring the homeless or delivering care to them inefficiently. This book is the report prepared by a committee of experts who examined these problems through visits to city slums and impoverished rural areas, and through an analysis of papers written by leading scholars in the field.
Author : Arthur Lazarus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book MD/MBA written by Arthur Lazarus and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physicians in the process of choosing medical management as a specialty need information about themselves and their options in order to make informed decisions. This book offers physicians guidance in assessing professional and personal strengths, developing self-marketing strategies, identifying and evaluating alternatives to conventional practics, and approaching career transitions in an organized way.
Author : Peter G. Cranford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780557026821
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)
Download or read book But for the Grace of God written by Peter G. Cranford and published by . This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly yet absorbing history of one of the best, worst, and largest insane asylums in the world.
Author : Dorothea Lynde Dix
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Conversations on Common Things written by Dorothea Lynde Dix and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marie Balter
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780201608168
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Nobody's Child written by Marie Balter and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1992-06-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Balter's courageous story of hope and healing has inspired millions around the country. After spending the first twenty years of her adult life in a mental hospital, she gradually emerged from the terror of the back wards, eventually to attend graduate school at Harvard University and become a leading champion for the mentally ill.
Author : Elna C. Green
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820321141
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Before the New Deal written by Elna C. Green and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War and Reconstruction changed the face of social welfare provision in the South as thousands of people received public assistance for the first time in their lives. This book examines the history of southern social welfare institutions and policies in those formative years. Ten original essays explore the local nature of welfare and the limited role of the state prior to the New Deal. The contributors consider such factors as southern distinctiveness, the impact of gender on policy and practice, and ways in which welfare practices reinforced social hierarchies. By examining the role of the South’s unique political economy, the impact of racism on social institutions, and the region’s experience of war, this book makes it clear that the South’s social welfare story is no mere carbon copy of the nation’s.
Author : Alex Beam
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786750367
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Gracefully Insane written by Alex Beam and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean "alumni" include Olmsted himself, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, James Taylor and Ray Charles, as well as (more secretly) other notables from among the rich and famous. In its "golden age," McLean provided as genteel an environment for the treatment of mental illness as one could imagine. But the golden age is over, and a downsized, downscale McLean-despite its affiliation with Harvard University-is struggling to stay afloat. Gracefully Insane, by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, is a fascinating and emotional biography of McLean Hospital from its founding in 1817 through today. It is filled with stories about patients and doctors: the Ralph Waldo Emerson prot'g' whose brilliance disappeared along with his madness; Anne Sexton's poetry seminar, and many more. The story of McLean is also the story of the hopes and failures of psychology and psychotherapy; of the evolution of attitudes about mental illness, of approaches to treatment, and of the economic pressures that are making McLean-and other institutions like it-relics of a bygone age. This is a compelling and often oddly poignant reading for fans of books like Plath's The Bell Jar and Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted (both inspired by their author's stays at McLean) and for anyone interested in the history of medicine or psychotherapy, or the social history of New England.
