Mad among Us

Name: Mad among Us
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ISBN: 9781451636338

ISBN-10: 1451636334

ISBN-13: 9781451636338

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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 our various attempts to solve this ever-present dilemma from colonial times to the present.Gerald Grob charts the growth of mental hospitals in response to the escalating numbers of the severely and persistently mentally ill and the deterioration of these hospitals under the pressure of too many patients and too few resources. Mounting criticism of psychiatric techniques such as shock therapies, drugs, and lobotomies and of mental institutions as inhumane places led to a new emphasis on community care and treatment. While some patients benefited from…

Book details

List price: $28.99
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 1/2/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

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