A History of Psychiatry

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edward Shorter"PPPP . . . To compress 200 years of psychiatric theory andpractice into a compelling and coherent narrative ...

A history of psychiatry and the many drugs which have been offered and taken over the years to aid mental health. Covers Thorazine, Lithium, Prozac...

Reducere. For over half a century Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work is a culmination of his li...

This book offers a general introduction to historical sources in the history of psychiatry, delving into the range of sources that can be used to i...

Reducere. For more than half a century Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Scie...

DescriptionPsychiatry is an endlessly controversial endeavor, incorporating emotively-charged questions over the reality of mental illness, the med...

DescriptionIn Anxiety: The Inside Story, the author takes a critical look at modern psychiatry's twin notions that all mental disorders are biologi...

Reducere. This is the story of a heroic professional career that should inspire anyone who wants to live a principled life. For fifty years Peter R. Breggin,...

Contributor(s): Author: Henri F. EllenbergerThis classic work is a monumental, integrated view of man's search for an understanding of the inner re...

Although books on the cultural aspects of mental health already exist, Cultural Psychiatry With Children, Adolescents, and Families is one of only ...

A scathing and original look at the racist origins of psychiatry, through the story of the largest mental institution in the world Today, 90 percen...

Through a detailed history of the asylum at Ticehurst in Sussex, Charlotte MacKenzie explores the consumer revolution which stimulated the prolifer...

Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne's study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a g...

DescriptionPsychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest kno...

This issue of Psychiatric Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Jay Shore, will explore the topic of Integrating Technology into 21st Century Psychiatry, in...

I cannot imagine what has got into the central nervous system of the men.'A War of Nerves is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth cent...

Lady Gibson shot Mussolini in 1926 & was sent to a mental hospital. Lucia Joyce, daughter of James was a fellow inmate. It is a novel inspired by s...

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Reducere. The Cambridge History of Medicine, first published in 2006, surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a relentless condition, the primary symptom being the occurrence of terrifying ideas, images, and urges that...

Reducere. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine has become a landmark in the history of Chinese civilization. Written in the form of a dialogue i...

Reducere. Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often po...

Reducere. Perched high on the top of Hathorne Hill in what was once the village of Salem, Danvers State Insane Asylum was, for more than a century, a monumen...

Reducere. From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal e...

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DescriptionThis book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey. The infl...

Reducere. Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore. For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire and how its tradi...

Reducere. Psychedelics have been a part-often a central and sacred part-of most societies throughout history, and for half a century psychedelics have rumble...

Reducere. Description"This is an exciting and excited collection of essays by a talented group of psychoanalysts, scholars and artists who take us right into...

Reducere. The Ketamine Papers. Science, Therapy and Transformation The Ketamine Papers opens the door to a broad understanding of this medicine's growing use...

Reducere. DescriptionIn our high-speed culture, terms like "stressed-out, " "Type-A personality, " "biofeedback, " and "relaxation response" have become comm...

Reducere. A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness The civil rights era is largely remembered as a t...

Reducere. Mindfulness is easiest in nature and nature is most reliant on the mindfulness of humans. This book offers diverse approaches to a mindful experien...

Reducere. In the history of Tibetan Buddhism, the eleventh-century Indian mystic N ropa occupies an unusual position, for his life and teachings mark both th...

Contributor(s): Author: Justin A. Frank"A great public service--critical for our time."--Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., Yale psychiatrist, expert on v...

Reducere. "A masterful piece of reporting . . . Reitman tells a spellbinding story of a larger-than-life personality whose quirks, ticks and charisma shaped ...

Reducere. DREAMS THAT COME TRUETELEPATHY, ESP, VISIONS, PREMONITIONSNEAR-DEATH AND OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCESMost of us have heard stories of these unusual phen...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking look at the evolution of our brains, eminent neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard Granger uncover the mysteries of the out...

The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several ...

Reducere. From the author of In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer comes an intensive look at the practice of psychoanalysis through inte...

Reducere. "In some ways disease does not exist until we have agreed that it does, by perceiving, naming, and responding to it, " writes Charles E. Rosenberg ...

In Under the Strain of Color, Gabriel N. Mendes recaptures the history of a largely forgotten New York City institution that embodied new ways of t...

Reducere. Featuring real-life stories of people who have found hope and meaning in the midst of life's struggles, Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health i...

DescriptionThe definitive story of Harley Quinn by her co-creator, Paul Dini, and Pat Cadigan, revealing the secrets of her history even as she see...