Download or read book The Anatomy of Madness People and ideas written by William F. Bynum and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a sample of the research being conducted into the history of British and Continental European madness and psychiatry.
Download or read book Anatomy Of Madness Vol 3 written by W F Bynum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays on the history of Psychiatry. The final Volume III offers works around the psychiatry of the Asylum in countries such as Denmark, British India, Italy, Britain, Ireland, Scotland, France and America.
Download or read book The Anatomy of Madness written by William F. Bynum and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anatomy Of Madness Vol 1 written by W F Bynum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays on the history of Psychiatry. Volume I of three, offers works around people and ideas including those of Samuel Johnson, Jon Conolly, Descartes, Freud, Darwin and Hamlet. Most of the papers in these volumes arose from a seminar series on the history of psychiatry and a one-day seminar on the same theme held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, during the academic year 1982-83.
Download or read book Anatomy of an Epidemic written by Robert Whitaker and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with new research, this New York Times bestseller is essential reading for a time when mental health is constantly in the news. In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Interwoven with Whitaker’s groundbreaking analysis of the merits of psychiatric medications are the personal stories of children and adults swept up in this epidemic. As Anatomy of an Epidemic reveals, other societies have begun to alter their use of psychiatric medications and are now reporting much improved outcomes . . . so why can’t such change happen here in the United States? Why have the results from these long-term studies—all of which point to the same startling conclusion—been kept from the public? Our nation has been hit by an epidemic of disabling mental illness, and yet, as Anatomy of an Epidemic reveals, the medical blueprints for curbing that epidemic have already been drawn up. Praise for Anatomy of an Epidemic “The timing of Robert Whitaker’s Anatomy of an Epidemic, a comprehensive and highly readable history of psychiatry in the United States, couldn’t be better.”—Salon “Anatomy of an Epidemic offers some answers, charting controversial ground with mystery-novel pacing.”—TIME “Lucid, pointed and important, Anatomy of an Epidemic should be required reading for anyone considering extended use of psychiatric medicine. Whitaker is at the height of his powers.” —Greg Critser, author of Generation Rx
Download or read book The Anatomy of Madness written by William F. Bynum and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Offenders Deviants or Patients written by Herschel Prins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How responsible are mentally disordered offenders for their crimes? Aimed specifically at understanding the social context of the serious criminal offender who is deemed to be mentally abnormal, this new edition of Offenders, Deviants or Patients? takes into account the many changes in legal practice, methods of treatment and attitudes since the first edition was published in 1980. Herschel Prins examines the relationship between mental abnormality and criminal behaviour, the extent to which this relationship is used (or misused) in the criminal courts and the various facilities that are currently available for treatment. Unique in its multidisciplinary approach Offenders, Deviants or Patients? will be invaluable to all those who come into contact with serious offenders.
Download or read book The Borderland of Imbecility written by Mark Jackson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the life and work of David Milch, the writer who created NYPD Blue, Deadwood and a number of other important US television dramas. It provides a detailed account of Milch's journey from academia to the heights of the television industry, locating him within the traditions of achievement in American literature over the past in order to evaluate his contribution to fiction writing. It also draws on behind-the-scenes materials to analyse the significance of NYPD Blue, Deadwood, John From Cincinatti and Luck. Contributing to academic debates in film, television and literary studies on authorship, the book will be of interest to fans of Milch's work, as well as those engaged with the intersection between literature and popular television.
Download or read book The Social Nature of Mental Illness written by Leonard Bowers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Len Bowers offers a critique of the theories of mental illness as a social construct. He examines the rationality of these theories, what they might mean, and in which cases they are to be accepted or rejected.
Download or read book Madness written by Philip John Tyson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madness: History, Concepts and Controversies provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of current perspectives on mental illness and how they have been shaped by historical trends and dominant sociocultural paradigms. From its representation among world religions and wider folkloric myth, to early attempts to rationalize and treat symptoms of mental disorder, this book outlines the principle contemporary models of understanding mental health and situates them within a wider historical and social context. The authors consider a variety of current controversies within the mental health arena and provide numerous pedagogical features to allow students the opportunity to understand and engage in current issues and debates relating to psychological disorders. By discussing key issues such as the social construction of mental illness, this text provides an essential overview of how societies and science has understood mental illness, and will appeal to students, researchers and general readers alike.
Download or read book The Social Nature of Mental Illness written by Dr. Leonard Bowers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatrists assert that mental illness is a physiological brain disorder. The anti-psychiatry movement refutes this on grounds of lack of evidence claiming that mental illness is socially defined. Len Bowers offers a rational, objective and philosophical critique of the theories of mental illness as a social construct and concludes that, though sometimes misguided, they cannot be wholly rejected. This critical scrutiny of a controversial and keenly-debated issue will be of interest to psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, sociologists and professionals in paramedical disciplines.
Download or read book The Politics of Madness written by Joseph Melling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history. Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century, The Politics of Madness provides a new perspective on this important topic, based on research drawn from both local and national material. Within a social and cultural history of the English political and class order, it presents a fresh appraisal of the significance of the asylum in the decades following the creation of a national asylum system in 1845. Arguing that the new asylums provided a meeting place for different social interests and aspirations, the text asserts that this then marked a transition in provincial power relations from the landed interests to the new coalition of professional, commercial and populist groups, which gained control of the public asylums at the end of the period surveyed.
Download or read book Blake s Night Thoughts written by J. Tambling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and Blanchot's writings in the twentieth. Taking 'night' as the breakdown of rational progressive thought and of thought based on concepts of identity, the book reads the lyric poetry, some Prophetic works, including a chapter on The Four Zoas , the illustrations to Young, and Dante, and look's at Blake's writing of madness.
Download or read book Poetic Imagination and Insanity written by Wilhelm Dilthey and published by Gegensatz Press. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1886, in a speech to a group of military physicians, the prominent German philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) rejected the traditional connection between artistic genius and inspired insanity. Here is an English translation of this speech, together with an extensive commentary, by Eric v.d. Luft.
Download or read book The Madhouse of Language written by Allan Ingram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language has always been used as a measure of social, ideological, and psychological contexts for the exploration of madness. The Madhouse of Language considers the relations between madness and language from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, focusing on the close analysis of both medical records and texts by mad writers. It presents a highly original account of the linguistic relations between madness and sanity, of the appropriation by sane writers of the forms of English, and of attempts by mad patients to gain access to the expressive potential of language.
Download or read book Desperate Housewives Neuroses and the Domestic Environment 1945 1970 written by Ali Haggett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the figure of the ‘desperate housewife’ is familiar to us, Haggett suggests that many women in the 1950s and ’60s led satisfying lives and that gender roles, while very different, were often seen as equal.
Download or read book Forensic Psychiatry written by John Gunn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 1293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2014Comprehensive and erudite, Forensic Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues, Second Edition is a practical guide to the psychiatry of offenders, victims, and survivors of crime. This landmark publication has been completely updated but retains all the features that made the first edition such a w
