Mad among Us A History of the Care of America's Mentally Ill

Name: Mad among Us A History of the Care of America's Mentally Ill
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ISBN: 9780029126950

ISBN-10: 0029126959

ISBN-13: 9780029126950

Edition: 1994

Authors: Gerald N. Grob

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Americans want to be humane toward the mentally ill, yet we have always been divided about what is best for them and for society. Now, the foremost historian of the care of the mentally ill compellingly recounts our various attempts to solve this ever-present dilemma. In the first comprehensive one-volume history of the treatment of the mentally ill, Gerald Grob begins with colonial America, when families and local communities accepted responsibility for their mentally ill members. Their solutions varied, from confinement under lock and key, to granting mentally ill persons a wide measure of autonomy. As American society grew larger and more complex, the first mental hospitals were created…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 2/21/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Gerald N. Grob is the Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus at Rutgers University.



List of Illustrations


Preface


Abbreviations Used in Text


Prologue


Caring for the Insane in Colonial America


Inventing the Asylum


The Emergence of American Psychiatry


Realities of Asylum Life


The Problem of Chronic Mental Illnesses, 1860-1940


A New Psychiatry


Depression, War, and the Crisis of Care


World War II and New Models of Mental Illnesses


The Foundations of Change in Postwar America


The New Frontier and the Promise of Community Mental Health


Confronting the Mad Among Us in Contemporary America


Notes


Index