Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940 /

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Gerald N. Grob's Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 has become a classic of American social history. Here the author continues his investigations by a study of the complex interrelationships of patients, psychiatrists, mental hospitals, and government between 1875 and World W...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grob, Gerald N., 1931-2015 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2019.
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
Temas:
Mental illness > Treatment > United States > History.
Psychiatry > United States > History.
Mental health policy > United States > History.
Psychiatric hospital care > United States > History.
Maladies mentales > Traitement > États-Unis > Histoire.
Santé mentale > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire.
Hôpitaux psychiatriques > Soins > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Mental health policy.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Psychiatric hospital care.
Psychiatry.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • One. The mental hospital
  • Two. American psychiatry: a specialty adrift
  • Three. The transformation of psychiatry
  • Four. The search for public policy
  • Five. The quest for psychiatric authority
  • Six. The mental hygiene movement
  • Seven. The invisible patient
  • Eight. Dilemmas of control: accountability versus autonomy
  • Nine. The emergence of the mental health professions
  • Ten. The psychiatric response
  • Eleven. Mental hospitals and psychiatry between the wars.

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