| Description |
xxiii, 641 pages : portraits ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. Demythologizing the ancients' spirits -- 2. Resuscitating and fashioning scientific thinking -- 3. Creating and reforming the custodial asylum -- 4. Rekindling sensibilities and releasing potentials -- 5. Identifying, describing, and classifying psychiatric disorders -- 6. Exploring and altering the convoluted brain -- 7. Exposing and decoding the unconscious -- 8. Innovating the intricacies of intrapsychic thought -- 9. Untangling learning and remedying behavior -- 10. Scrutinizing introspections and rebuilding cognitions -- 11. Unveiling the social and anthropological world -- 12. Exploring the enhancing interpersonal relationships -- 13. Enlisting evolution to elucidate human adaptations -- 14. Systematically measuring and integrating the mind |
| Summary |
"A piece of intellectual, scientific, and medical history, Theodore Millon's Masters of the Mind takes you on a tour of humankind's attempts to understand itself. Millon, a major figure among today's psychological experts, considers the full scope of mental science, from its precedents in early thought, through the rise of its disciplines in the twentieth century, and on to the newest paradigms at work in the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography, pages 599-616 |
| Subject |
Psychology -- History.
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Psychiatry -- History.
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Mental illness -- Social aspects.
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Mental illness -- History.
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Psychology, Clinical -- history.
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Mental illness -- History
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Psychiatry -- history.
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Mental Disorders -- history.
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Mental Disorders -- therapy.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Author |
Grossman, Seth.
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Meagher, Sarah E.
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| LC no. |
2004043538 |
| ISBN |
0471469858 hardback |
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