Title From madness to mental health : psychiatric disorder and its treatment in Western civilization / edited by Greg Eghigian.

Publication Info.	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 456 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-451) and index.
Contents	The ancient world -- Medieval and early modern Europe -- Enlightenment, romanticism, and reform -- The asylum -- Brain science, nerves, and clinical psychiatry -- War and neurosis -- The new focus on the body -- Psychiatric eugenics in Nazi Germany -- Mental illness, psychiatry, and communism -- Antipsychiatry, social psychiatry, and deinstitutionalization -- The psychoboom.
Summary	A unique anthology of readings, from ancient times to the present, that considers how mental disorders have historically challenged the ways in which humans have understood and valued their bodies, minds, and souls.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Psychiatry -- History.
	Psychiatry.
	Western World.
	Mentally Ill Persons.
	Mental Health Services.
	Mental Disorders.
	Medicine in Literature.
	MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
	MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
	PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology.
	PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
	PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General.
	Psychiatry. (OCoLC)fst01081152
	Psychische stoornissen.
	Psychiatrie.
	Psychotherapie.
	Westerse wereld.
	psychiatrie -- Antiquité -- 20e s.
Genre/Form	Collected Works.
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Eghigian, Greg, 1961- editor.
Other Form:	Print version: From madness to mental health. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010 9780813546650 (DLC) 2009008508 (OCoLC)312625379
ISBN	9780813549095 (electronic bk.)
	0813549094 (electronic bk.)

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