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Author Laine-Frigren, Tuomas

Title Encountering Crises of the Mind
Published Boston : BRILL, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (316 pages)
Series History of Science and Medicine Library
History of science and medicine library.
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1 Sufferers, Specialists, Spaces and Society: Historical Approaches to Crises of the Mind; Part 1 Preclinical Definitions of Madness; Chapter 2 Medical Knowledge of Mental Disorders and Their Cure in Latin and Vernacular Culture in Later Medieval Europe; Chapter 3 Defining and Treating Madness in Local Communities of Early Modern Finland; Chapter 4 Melancholy, Race and Slavery in the Early Modern Southern Atlantic World; Part 2 Modernisation and Crises of Mind: Changing Spaces, Voices and Sources
Chapter 5 Hospitalised: Patients' Voices in 19th-Century Finnish NewspapersChapter 6 Despair in Finnish: Consultation by Correspondence in Fin-de-Siècle Finland; Chapter 7 In the Gray Area: Patient Records, Somatic Treatments and the History of Psychiatry in Denmark, 1936-1956; Chapter 8 Treatment and Rehabilitation: Patients at Work in Finnish Mental Institutions; Part 3 Encountering Madness in the Peripheries; Chapter 9 Emotionally Neglected or Deviant? Treating Childhood Neuroses in Communist Hungary during the Early 1960s
Chapter 10 Psychiatry at the Periphery: the Case of Princely India, c. 1830-1900Chapter 11 'Madness', Emotions and Loss of Control in a Colonial Frontier: Methodological Challenges of Crises of Mind; Index
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Subject Mental health -- History
Mental illness -- Treatment.
Mental Disorders -- therapy
Mental health.
Mental illness -- Treatment.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Eilola, Jari
Hokkanen, Markku
ISBN 9789004308534
9004308539