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: 9780674541122

ISBN-10: 067454112X

ISBN-13: 9780674541122

Edition: 1st

Authors: Gerald N. Grob

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In the first comprehensive one-volume history of the treatment of the mentally ill, the foremost historian in the field compellingly recounts out various attempts to solve this ever-present dilemma from colonial times to the present.

Book details

List price: $16.95
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



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