Mental Illness And American Society 1875 1940
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Author | : Gerald N. Grob |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2019-01-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691196257 |
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 War II. Challenging the now prevalent notion that mental hospitals in this period functioned as jails, he finds that, despite their shortcomings, they provided care for people unable to survive by themselves. From a rich variety of previously unexploited sources, he shows how professional and political concerns, rather than patient needs, changed American attitudes toward mental hospitals from support to antipathy. Toward the end of the 1800s psychiatrists shifted their attention toward therapy and the mental hygiene movement and away from patient care. Concurrently, the patient population began to include more aged people and people with severe somatic disorders, whose condition recluded their caring for themselves. In probing these changes, this work clarifies a central issue of decent and humane health care. Gerald N. Grob is Professor of History at Rutgers University. Among his works are Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 (Free Press), Edward Jarvis and the Medical World of Nineteenth-Century America (Tennessee), and The State and the Mentality III (North Carolina). Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Gerald N. Grob |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 1983-12-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780608063942 |
Author | : Gerald N. Grob |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1400862302 |
The distinguished historian of medicine Gerald Grob analyzes the post-World War II policy shift that moved many severely mentally ill patients from large state hospitals to nursing homes, families, and subsidized hotel rooms--and also, most disastrously, to the streets. On the eve of the war, public mental hospitals were the chief element in the American mental health system. Responsible for providing both treatment and care and supported by major portions of state budgets, they employed more than two-thirds of the members of the American Psychiatric Association and cared for nearly 98 percent of all institutionalized patients. This study shows how the consensus for such a program vanished, creating social problems that tragically intensified the sometimes unavoidable devastation of mental illness. Examining changes in mental health care between 1940 and 1970, Grob shows that community psychiatric and psychological services grew rapidly, while new treatments enabled many patients to lead normal lives. Acute services for the severely ill were expanded, and public hospitals, relieved of caring for large numbers of chronic or aged patients, developed into more active treatment centers. But since the main goal of the new policies was to serve a broad population, many of the most seriously ill were set adrift without even the basic necessities of life. By revealing the sources of the euphemistically designated policy of "community care," Grob points to sorely needed alternatives. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Clifford Whittingham Beers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Mental illness |
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Author | : Greg Eghigian |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2009-12-10 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0813549094 |
From Madness to Mental Health neither glorifies nor denigrates the contributions of psychiatry, clinical psychology, and psychotherapy, but rather considers how mental disorders have historically challenged the ways in which human beings have understood and valued their bodies, minds, and souls. Greg Eghigian has compiled a unique anthology of readings, from ancient times to the present, that includes Hippocrates; Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love, penned in the 1390s; Dorothea Dix; Aaron T. Beck; Carl Rogers; and others, culled from religious texts, clinical case studies, memoirs, academic lectures, hospital and government records, legal and medical treatises, and art collections. Incorporating historical experiences of medical practitioners and those deemed mentally ill, From Madness to Mental Health also includes an updated bibliography of first-person narratives on mental illness compiled by Gail A. Hornstein.
Author | : Nancy Tomes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1984-04-27 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521241724 |
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Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Medical |
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Author | : Geertje Boschma |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9789053565018 |
A unique analysis of psychiatric care and the emerging field of mental health nursing in the Netherlands at the turn of the 19th century.
Author | : Mary C. WATERS |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780674044944 |
The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is generally considered to be a great success. Mary Waters, however, tells a very different story. She finds that the values that gain first-generation immigrants initial success--a willingness to work hard, a lack of attention to racism, a desire for education, an incentive to save--are undermined by the realities of life and race relations in the United States. Contrary to long-held beliefs, Waters finds, those who resist Americanization are most likely to succeed economically, especially in the second generation.
Author | : Albert Deutsch |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2014-12-03 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1447495268 |
This fascinating book traces the evolution of a cultural pattern as represented by the way in which people through the years have thought and felt about the so-called insane. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.