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Author Grob, Gerald N., 1931-2015

Title The mad among us : a history of the care of America's mentally ill / Gerald N. Grob.

Publication Info. New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, [1994]
©1994

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  362.2 G890M    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.2 G873M    Check Shelf
Description xi, 386 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-368) and index.
Contents Caring for the insane in Colonial America -- Inventing the asylum -- The emergence of American psychiatry -- Realities of asylum life -- The problem of chronic mental illnesses, 1860-1940 -- A new psychiatry -- Depression, war, and the crisis of care -- World War II and the new models of mental illnesses -- The foundations of change in postwar America -- The new frontier and the promise of community mental health -- Confronting the mad among us in contemporary America.
Subject Mentally ill -- Care -- United States -- History.
Psychiatry -- United States -- History.
Mentally ill -- United States -- Public opinion.
Indexed Term Mentally disordered persons Care History
United States
Subject Mental Disorders -- history -- United States.
Psychiatry -- history -- United States.
Mental Disorders -- therapy -- United States.
Public Opinion -- United States.
ISBN 0029126959: $24.95
9780029126950
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