Anatomy Of Madness Vol 1
Anatomy Of Madness Vol 1

Author: W F Bynum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1136524924

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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.

Anatomy Of Madness Vol 2
Anatomy Of Madness Vol 2

Author: W F Bynum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1136525203

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This is a collection of essays on the history of Psychiatry. Volume II of three, offers works around the institutions and society from the eighteenth century to 1917. 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.

Anatomy Of Madness Vol 3
Anatomy Of Madness Vol 3

Author: W F Bynum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1136525483

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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.

Labyrinths of Deceit
Labyrinths of Deceit

Author: Richard J. Walker

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1835534023

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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. Prominent citizens in nineteenth-century England believed themselves to be living in a time of unstoppable progress. Yet running just beneath Victorian triumphalism were strong undercurrents of chaos and uncertainty. Richard Walker plumbs the depths of those currents in order to present an alternative history of nineteenth-century society. Mining literary and philosophical works of the period, Walker explores the crisis of identity that beset nineteenth-century thinkers and how that crisis revealed itself in portrayals of addiction, split personalities, and religious mania. Victorian England will never look the same.

Psychiatry and Religion
Psychiatry and Religion

Author: Dinesh Bhugra

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0429955308

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Psychiatry and Religion: Context, Consensus and Controversies works to eradicate the distinction between spiritual and psychological welfare and promote greater understanding of the relationship between the two. This book brings together chapters from fifteen mental health practitioners and pastoral workers to explore what their different philosophies have to offer the individuals in their care. As well as all the major world religions, the text also provides detailed information about newer religions and the significance of their belief systems for mental health management. The book examines the positive and negative effects that strict moral codes and religious rituals can produce and shows how awareness of these effects is crucial to the treatment of these patients. This classic edition of Psychiatry and Religion, with a new introduction from Dinesh Bhugra, will continue to provide an important resource to practicing and training psychiatrists.

Women, Madness, and Spiritualism: Georgina Weldon and Louisa Lowe
Women, Madness, and Spiritualism: Georgina Weldon and Louisa Lowe

Author: Roy Porter

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780415276344

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This set reproduces seminal writings by three exceptional nineteenth-century women. Georgina Weldon, Louisa Lowe and Susan Willis Fletcher were certified as insane by the Victorian medical establishment and were threatened with incarceration for their eccentric and transgressive behaviour. All three were remarkably resourceful and very successfully manipulated the sensationalist press to expose the 'lunacy laws' to the late-Victorian public. In doing this, they contributed to the emerging feminist critique of medicine and science. Each volume is devoted to the work of one of these exceptional women. New introductions by the editors and the late Roy Porter provide context and discussion of the pieces included, pointing to the themes and issues that they raise. With an extensive index, this collection provides an invaluable resource for those studying the role of feminism in the history of medicine and the power of the medical profession in the Victorian era.

The Noonday Demon
The Noonday Demon

Author: Andrew Solomon

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-09-16

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 145161103X

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The author offers a look at depression in which he draws on his own battle with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, researchers, doctors, and others to assess the complexities of the disease, its causes and symptoms, and available therapies. This book examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications, the efficacy of alternative treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations, around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by emerging biological explanations for mental illness. He takes readers on a journey into the most pervasive of family secrets and contributes to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition.

Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

Author: Heather R Beatty

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1317321103

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This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nervous disease – a supposedly upper-class malady. Beatty concludes that ‘nervousness’ was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in eighteenth-century medical theory.

The History of Mental Symptoms
The History of Mental Symptoms

Author: G. E. Berrios

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-04-11

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 9780521437363

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An important and unique survey of the historical background to the descriptive categories of psychopathology.

The Quest for Mental Health
The Quest for Mental Health

Author: Ian Dowbiggin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-07-19

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1139498681

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This is the story of one of the most far-reaching human endeavors in history: the quest for mental well-being. From its origins in the eighteenth century to its wide scope in the early twenty-first, this search for emotional health and welfare has cost billions. In the name of mental health, millions around the world have been tranquilized, institutionalized, psycho-analyzed, sterilized, lobotomized and even euthanized. Yet at the dawn of the new millennium, reported rates of depression and anxiety are unprecedentedly high. Drawing on years of field research, Ian Dowbiggin argues that if the quest for emotional well-being has reached a crisis point in the twenty-first century, it is because mass society is enveloped by cultures of therapism and consumerism, which increasingly advocate bureaucratic and managerial approaches to health and welfare.