Mental Ills and Bodily Cures Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Name: Mental Ills and Bodily Cures Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780520205475

ISBN-10: 0520205472

ISBN-13: 9780520205475

Edition: 1998

Authors: Joel Braslow

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Mental Ills and Bodily Cures depicts a time when psychiatric medicine went to lengths we now find extreme and perhaps even brutal ways to heal the mind by treating the body. From a treasure trove of California psychiatric hospital records, including many verbatim transcripts of patient interviews, Joel Braslow masterfully reconstructs the world of mental patients and their doctors in the first half of the twentieth century. Hydrotherapy, sterilization, electroshock, lobotomy, and clitoridectomy--these were among the drastic somatic treatments used in these hospitals. By allowing the would-be healers and those in psychological and physical distress to speak for themselves, Braslow captures…

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List price: $68.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/6/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 262
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Figures


Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction to the Psychiatric Body



Institutional Therapy: Context, Background, Structure



Discipline or Therapy: Patients, Doctors, and Somatic Remedies in the Early Twentieth Century



In the Name of Therapeutics: Sexual Sterilization as Psychic Cure



Neurosyphilis, Malaria, and a New Therapeutic Rationale



Where the Mind Ends and the Body Begins: The Practices of Electroconvulsive Therapy



Surgery as Discipline: Lobotomy at Stockton State Hospital



Discipline Gendered: Women and the Practice of Lobotomy


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index