In Search of Madness : A psychiatrist’s travels through the history of mental illness
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0717193780
ISBN-13
9780717193783
Publisher
Gill
Imprint
Gill Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 8th, 2022
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
422 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 23.30 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
Care of the mentally illMental health servicesHistory of medicinePsychiatry
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In this fascinating new exploration of mental illness, Professor Brendan Kelly examines madness in history and how we have responded to it over the centuries. This book is an all-encompassing history of one of the most basic fears to haunt the human psyche.
Who is mad? Who is not? And who decides?In this fascinating new exploration of mental illness, Professor Brendan Kelly examines madness in history and how we have responded to it over the centuries.We travel from the psychiatric institutions of India to Victorian scientific studies of the brain. We discover the beginnings of formal asylum care and witness the experimental therapies of the cavernous psychiatric hospitals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Ireland, England, Belgium, Italy, Germany and the US.Covering institutionalization, lobotomy and the Nazis Aktion T4, as well as Freud, psychoanalysis, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and neuroscience, Professor Kelly examines the shift from psychobabble to neurobabble in recent times.In Search of Madness is an all-encompassing history of one of the most basic fears to haunt the human psyche, and it concludes with a passionate manifesto for change: four proposals to make mental health services more effective, accessible and just.
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