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From Madness to Mental Health: Psychiatric Disorder and Its Treatment in Western Civilization
Greg Eghigian
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From Madness to Mental Health neither glorifies nor denigrates the contributions of psychiatry, clinical psychology, and psychotherapy, but rather considers how mental disorders have historically challenged the ways in which human beings have understood and valued their bodies, minds, and souls.
From Madness to Mental Health neither glorifies nor denigrates the contributions of psychiatry, clinical psychology, and psychotherapy, but rather considers how mental disorders have historically challenged the ways in which human beings have understood and valued their bodies, minds, and souls.
Greg Eghigian has compiled a unique anthology of readings, from ancient times to the present, that includes Hippocrates; Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love, penned in the 1390s; Dorothea Dix; Aaron T. Beck; Carl Rogers; and others, culled from religious texts, clinical case studies, memoirs, academic lectures, hospital and government records, legal and medical treatises, and art collections. Incorporating ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813546667
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V9780813546667
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About Greg Eghigian
Greg Eghigian is the director of the science, technology, and society program and associate professor of modern history at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Self as Project: Politics and Human Sciences in the Twentieth Century.
Reviews for From Madness to Mental Health: Psychiatric Disorder and Its Treatment in Western Civilization
"There is no comparable sourcebook dealing with mental illness in Western society and this collection of texts fills an existing void."
Gerald Grob
Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus, Rutgers University
"Mental illness has long been one of the most baffling phenomena known to us. It is devastating for the individual suffering from it and incomprehensible ... Read more
Gerald Grob
Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus, Rutgers University
"Mental illness has long been one of the most baffling phenomena known to us. It is devastating for the individual suffering from it and incomprehensible ... Read more