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Author : Gerald N. Grob
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Inner World of American Psychiatry, 1890-1940 written by Gerald N. Grob and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Summers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190852658
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions written by Martin Summers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Founded in 1855 to treat insane soldiers and sailors as well as civilian residents in the nation's capital, the institution became one of the country's preeminent research and teaching psychiatric hospitals. From the beginning of its operation, Saint Elizabeths admitted black patients, making it one of the few American asylums to do so. This book is a history of the hospital and its relationship to Washington, DC's African American community. It charts the history of Saint Elizabeths from its founding to the late-1980s, when the hospital's mission and capabilities changed as a result of deinstitutionalization, and its transfer from the federal government to the District of Columbia. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including patient case files, the book demonstrates how race was central to virtually every aspect of the hospital's existence, from the ways in which psychiatrists understood mental illness and employed therapies to treat it to the ways that black patients experienced their institutionalization. The book argues that assumptions about the existence of distinctive black and white psyches shaped the therapeutic and diagnostic regimes in the hospital and left a legacy of poor treatment of African American patients, even after psychiatrists had begun to reject racialist conceptions of the psyche. Yet black patients and their communities asserted their own agency and exhibited a "rights consciousness" in large and small ways, from agitating for more equal treatment to attempting to manage the therapeutic experience.
Author : Tara Abraham
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262335395
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Rebel Genius written by Tara Abraham and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and work of a scientist who spent his career crossing disciplinary boundaries—from experimental neurology to psychiatry to cybernetics to engineering. Warren S. McCulloch (1898–1969) adopted many identities in his scientific life—among them philosopher, poet, neurologist, neurophysiologist, neuropsychiatrist, collaborator, theorist, cybernetician, mentor, engineer. He was, writes Tara Abraham in this account of McCulloch's life and work, “an intellectual showman,” and performed this part throughout his career. While McCulloch claimed a common thread in his work was the problem of mind and its relationship to the brain, there was much more to him than that. In Rebel Genius, Abraham uses McCulloch's life as a window on a past scientific age, showing the complex transformations that took place in American brain and mind science in the twentieth century—particularly those surrounding the cybernetics movement. Abraham describes McCulloch's early work in neuropsychiatry, and his emerging identity as a neurophysiologist. She explores his transformative years at the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute and his work with Walter Pitts—often seen as the first iteration of “artificial intelligence” but here described as stemming from the new tradition of mathematical treatments of biological problems. Abraham argues that McCulloch's dual identities as neuropsychiatrist and cybernetician are inseparable. He used the authority he gained in traditional disciplinary roles as a basis for posing big questions about the brain and mind as a cybernetician. When McCulloch moved to the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, new practices for studying the brain, grounded in mathematics, philosophy, and theoretical modeling, expanded the relevance and ramifications of his work. McCulloch's transdisciplinary legacies anticipated today's multidisciplinary field of cognitive science.
Author : Richard Noll
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674062655
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book American Madness written by Richard Noll and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1895 there was not a single case of dementia praecox reported in the United States. By 1912 there were tens of thousands of people with this diagnosis locked up in asylums, hospitals, and jails. By 1927 it was fading away . How could such a terrible disease be discovered, affect so many lives, and then turn out to be something else? In vivid detail, Richard Noll describes how the discovery of this mysterious disorder gave hope to the overworked asylum doctors that they could at last explain—though they could not cure—the miserable patients surrounding them. The story of dementia praecox, and its eventual replacement by the new concept of schizophrenia, also reveals how asylum physicians fought for their own respectability. If what they were observing was a disease, then this biological reality was amenable to scientific research. In the early twentieth century, dementia praecox was psychiatry’s key into an increasingly science-focused medical profession. But for the moment, nothing could be done to help the sufferers. When the concept of schizophrenia offered a fresh understanding of this disorder, and hope for a cure, psychiatry abandoned the old disease for the new. In this dramatic story of a vanished diagnosis, Noll shows the co-dependency between a disease and the scientific status of the profession that treats it. The ghost of dementia praecox haunts today’s debates about the latest generation of psychiatric disorders.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1482 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bibliography of the History of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. D. Lamb
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421414856
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Pathologist of the Mind written by S. D. Lamb and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating the contributions of Adolf Meyer, the pioneering father of modern American psychiatry. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL During the first half of the twentieth century, Adolf Meyer was the most authoritative and influential psychiatrist in the United States. In 1908, when the Johns Hopkins Hospital established the first American university clinic devoted to psychiatry—still a nascent medical specialty at the time—Meyer was selected to oversee the enterprise. The Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic opened in 1913, and Meyer served as psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins until 1941. In Pathologist of the Mind, S. D. Lamb explores how Meyer used his powerful position to establish psychiatry as a clinical science that operated like the other specialties at the country’s foremost medical school and research hospital. In addition to successfully arguing for a scientific and biological approach to mental illness, Meyer held extraordinary sway over state policies regarding the certification of psychiatrists. He also trained hundreds of specialists who ultimately occupied leadership positions and made significant contributions in psychiatry, neurology, experimental psychology, social work, and public health. Although historians have long recognized Meyer’s authority, his concepts and methods have never before received a systematic historical analysis. Pathologist of the Mind aims to rediscover Meyerian psychiatry by eavesdropping on Meyer’s informal and intimate conversations with patients and colleagues. Weaving together private correspondence and uniquely detailed case histories, Lamb examines Meyer’s efforts to institute a clinical science of psychiatry in the United States—one that harmonized the expectations of scientific medicine with his concept of the person as a biological organism and mental illness as an adaptive failure. The first historian ever granted access to these exceptional medical records, Lamb offers a compelling new perspective on the integral but misunderstood legacy of Adolf Meyer.
Author : Greg Eghigian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351784390
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health written by Greg Eghigian and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mad people's historical anthologies and republished writings -- Mad people's perspectives in institutional histories -- Mad people's historical biographies -- Mad people's activist histories -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 16: Dementia: confusion at the borderlands of aging and madness -- Dementia in the distant past -- Framing dementia as a brain disease in modern German psychiatry -- Framing dementia as a problem in the adjustment to aging in mid-century American psychodynamic psychiatry -- Framing dementia as dread disease and major public health crisis in an aging world -- Conclusion: the ongoing entanglement of dementia and aging -- Notes -- PART VI: Maladies, disorders, and treatments -- Chapter 17: Passions and moods -- Emotions in history -- Grand narratives and overarching themes -- Specific stories and critical contexts -- Conclusion and areas for further scholarship -- Notes -- Chapter 18: Psychosis -- Madness -- Psychosis is a special thing -- If "psychotic" means "psychosis-like," then what, pray tell, is psychosis like? -- Schizophrenia -- Notes -- Chapter 19: Somatic treatments -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 20: Psychotherapy in society: historical reflections -- Notes -- Chapter 21: The antidepressant era revisited: towards differentiation and patient-empowerment in diagnosis and treatment -- Psychopharmacology and historiography -- Towards a new chemistry of the mind -- Mother's little helpers -- Appetite for new chemical wonders for the mind -- Towards differentiation and patient empowerment in the era of genomics -- Notes -- Index
Author : Paul Jay Fink
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780880484053
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Stigma and Mental Illness written by Paul Jay Fink and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 1992 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of writings on how society has stigmatized mentally ill persons, their families, and their caregivers. First-hand accounts poignantly portray what it is like to be the victim of stigma and mental illness. Stigma and Mental Illness also presents historical, societal, and institutional viewpoints that underscore the devastating effects of stigma.
Author : Glen O. Gabbard
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780880489645
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Psychiatry and the Cinema written by Glen O. Gabbard and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 1999 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry and the Cinema explores this complementary relationship from two angles, psychiatrists who have studied the movies and movies that have depicted psychiatry. This second edition has updated this definitive text with a discussion of new trends in psychoanalytically oriented film theory, and an expanded list of movies is analyzed.
Author : D. Double
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230599192
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Critical Psychiatry written by D. Double and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-07-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry is increasingly dominated by the reductionist claim that mental illness is caused by neurobiological abnormalities. Critical psychiatry disagrees with this and proposes a more ethical foundation for practice. This book describes an original framework for renewing mental health services in alliance with people with mental health problems.
Author : Mary de Young
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786457465
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Madness written by Mary de Young and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Madness" is, of course, personally experienced, but because of its intimate relationship to the sociocultural context, it is also socially constructed, culturally represented and socially controlled--all of which make it a topic rife for sociological analysis. Using a range of historical and contemporary textual material, this work exercises the sociological imagination to explore some of the most perplexing questions in the history of madness, including why some behaviors, thoughts and emotions are labeled mad while others are not; why they are labeled mad in one historical period and not another; why the label of mad is applied to some types of people and not others; by whom the label is applied, and with what consequences.
Author : E. Lunbeck
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691025841
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (258 download)
Download or read book The Psychiatric Persuasion written by E. Lunbeck and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-11 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals largely with the Boston State Hospital Psychopathic Dept.
Author : Anne E. Figert
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412841623
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Women and the Ownership of PMS written by Anne E. Figert and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Élodie Edwards-Grossi
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807178659
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Mad with Freedom written by Élodie Edwards-Grossi and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of race in studies of insanity in the 1840s and 1850s gave rise to politically charged theories on the differential biology and pathologies of brains in whites and Blacks. In Mad with Freedom, Élodie Edwards-Grossi explores the largely unknown social history of these racialized theories on insanity in the segregated South. She unites an institutional history of psychiatric spaces in the South that housed Black patients with an intellectual history of early psychiatric theories that defined the Black body as a locus for specific pathologies. Edwards-Grossi also reveals the subtle, localized techniques of resistance later employed by Black patients to confront medical power. Her work shows the continuous politicization of science and theories on insanity in the context of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow South.
Author : Owen Whooley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022661641X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book On the Heels of Ignorance written by Owen Whooley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knots, often invoking the latest medical science in doing so. But, as Owen Whooley’s sweeping new book tells us, the history of American psychiatry is really a record of ignorance. On the Heels of Ignorance begins with psychiatry’s formal inception in the 1840s and moves through two centuries of constant struggle simply to define and redefine mental illness, to say nothing of the best way to treat it. Whooley’s book is no antipsychiatric screed, however; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving. On the Heels of Ignorance draws from intellectual history and the sociology of professions to portray an ongoing human effort to make sense of complex mental phenomena using an imperfect set of tools, with sometimes tragic results.
Author : Michael A. Rembis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252036069
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Defining Deviance written by Michael A. Rembis and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the case files of the State Training school of Geneva, Illinois, the author presents a history of delinquent girls in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on contemporary perceptions of gender, sexuality, class, disability and eugenics, the work examines the involuntary commitment of girls and young women deemed by reformers to be "defective" and shows both the dominant social trends of the day as well as the ways in which the victims of these policies sought to mitigate their conditions.
Author : Sandra Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351297465
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Assertive Community Treatment written by Sandra Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion in studies on comparative health studies, but mental health remains virtually ignored. Unlike the well researched topic of health policy, there is a gap in the marketplace covering mental health policy and health care policymaking. This book fills that gap; it is a comparative analysis of the implementation of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), an evidence-based practice employed in two states that promises to empower the well-being of individuals suffering from mental illness. Assertive Community Treatment specifically examines the tension separating the notion of client recovery and evidence-based programs. Johnson challenges the assumption that practitioners should rely on evidence-based practices to close the gap between scientific knowledge and practice. She argues that in an era of managed care, this encourages state mental health administrators to adopt policies that are overly focused on outcomes. Programs that can measure the outcomes of care provided, and evidence-based practices, have become central aspects of the quality care agenda. This study traces the role of policy entrepreneurs throughout the Assertive Community Treatment policymaking process. By differentiating mental health in general, qualitative research increases the chances of observing similarities and differences in outcomes. Johnson explains why the ACT model was adopted and implemented. She concludes that there is a clear monopoly by medical researchers and scientists within Assertive Community Treatment research, and as a result, too much emphasis is placed on the roles of policy entrepreneurs as the main innovators in the agenda and policy formulation stages. Johnson presents a strong argument for more innovation in the implementation stage.
