| Description |
xix, 516 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue: The Role of Religion in Healing the Mind -- 1. A Long and Winding Road: From Old Testament Times to Early Christianity -- 2. Descent into Darkness: From the Middle Ages to the Inquisition -- 3. Rumblings of Revolution: The Sixteenth Century -- 4. Firm Foundations in Empiricism and Classification: The Seventeenth Century -- 5. The Eighteenth Century: The Rise of Rationality -- 6. Nineteenth-Century Germany: From Romanticism to Empiricism -- 7. Nineteenth-Century France: Efforts toward Systemizing Illness -- 8. Nineteenth-Century Britain: Interests in Taxonomy and Heredity -- 9. Nineteenth-Century America: Modern Psychiatry Emerges with Technology -- 10. Italy, Russia, and Spain in the Nineteenth Century: Contributions from Less Active Areas -- 11. 1900-1929: An Era of Expansion -- 12. 1930-1949: Persecution and War Cause Many Psychiatrists to Emigrate from Europe -- 13. 1950-1959: Developments in the United States Become Prominent |
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14. The Renaissance of Biological Psychiatry and the Diversification of Psychotherapy -- 15. Biological Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Genetics -- 16. The Flourishing of Objectifiable Science -- 17. General and Hospital Psychiatry -- 18. Biological Psychiatry and Genetics -- 19. Child Psychiatry -- 20. Neo-Darwinian Ethology: A New Look at the Human "Game Plan" -- 21. Biometrics, Taxonomy, Epidemiology: Progress in Measurement -- 22. Psychoanalysis: A Work in Progress -- 23. General Psychiatry: Psychiatry Becomes a Worldwide Enterprise -- 24. Hospital Psychiatry: The Movement toward Briefer Hospital Stays and Greater Use of Alternative Programs -- 25. Personality Disorders: The Study of Personality as a Rapid-Growth Industry -- 26. Biological Psychiatry -- 27. Child Psychiatry -- 28. Forensic Psychiatry -- 29. Other Recent Developments -- Postscript: Twenty-First Century Trends |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [451]-482) and index |
| Subject |
Mental illness -- Treatment -- History.
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Mentally ill -- Care -- History.
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Psychiatry -- History.
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Psychoanalysis -- History.
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Psychotherapy -- History.
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Psychiatry -- history.
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Mental Disorders -- therapy.
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Mental Disorders -- therapy.
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Mental Disorders -- history.
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Psychiatry -- history.
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| LC no. |
96028209 |
| ISBN |
0393702227 |
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