From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency

From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency
Author: Anne Digby
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2002-09-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134831994

From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Approaches to learning disabilities have changed dramatically in recent years. The implementation of 'Care in the Community', the campaign for disabled rights and the debate over the education of children with special needs have combined to make this one of the most controversial areas in social policy today. The nine original research essays collected here cover the social history of learning disability from the Middle Ages through the establishment of the National Health Service. They will not only contribute to a neglected field of social and medical history but also illuminate and inform current debates. The information presented here will have a profound impact on how professionals in mental health, psychiatric nursing, social work and disabled rights understand learning disability and society's responses to it over the course of history.

Psychology and Psychiatry Serials

Psychology and Psychiatry Serials
Author: Dorothy Marie Persson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1990
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781560240488

This valuable new bibliography fills a void in the reference literature of psychology and psychiatry by providing a guide to the major English-language periodicals in these fields. Designed to be a flexible collection development tool, this practical volume will facilitate librarians’decision making as they select and deselect serials according to the particular needs and interests of their patrons. Psychology and Psychiatry Serials consists of 305 titles, including some annuals, arranged alphabetically. The general topic areas include psychometrics, experimental psychology, developmental psychology, personality, physical and psychological disorders, treatment and prevention, educational psychology, applied psychology, and general psychology. The journals were selected from those indexed in such sources as Psychological Abstracts and Current Index to Journals in Education and were reviewed on the basis of subject relevance, importance within subject area, attention to current professional issues, level of scholarship, and inclusion in major indexing and abstracting tools. The citation for each publication consists of the current title, date of publication of first volume (under the current title), frequency of publication, publisher, ISSN, indexing and abstracting tools in which the publication is listed, and a brief annotation. Each entry also includes one or more “subject codes” that correspond to the 16 areas used for classification of Psychological Abstracts entries. An index following the entries lists titles by subject area and list of publishers’addresses is included to facilitate the request of sample issues and queries about the subscription process. Created by professional librarians with years of experience in these subject areas, Psychology and Psychiatry Serials has innumerable practical and theoretical applications for librarians: the bibliography can be used in the technical services fields where serials control, acquisitions, and cataloging demand greater precision in the description of published materials the entries for publication histories and publication frequency can furnish authoritative data for bibliographic descriptions the annotations and subject category codes will be useful starting points for subject analysis the convenience of the bibliography makes characteristics of serial literature studies relatively easy to do since it reduces the amount of work an investigator needs to do to gather primary data about serials in terms of evaluating indexing and abstracting services of core materials, the list has great potential for duplication and overlap studies with a core publication format, the list can be used to quickly compare index counts in psychology and behavioral sciences as a whole, and in particular subjects the list can also be used as a companion to existing lists, some of which are more comprehensive and exhaustive

The Creativity Question

The Creativity Question
Author: Albert Rothenberg
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1976
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780822303541

Albert Rothenberg, a psychiatrist, and Carl R. Hausman, a philosopher, have prepared a truly comprehensive interdisciplinary book of readings on creativity. This group of selections from the works of writers in psychiatry, philosophy, psychology, psychoanalysis, and education brings together, for the first time, major theoretical works, outstanding empirical findings, and discussions of the definition and nature of creativity. The organization of The Creativity Question is unique: it illustrates the various approaches and basic assumptions underlying studies of creativity throughout the course of history up to the present time. The main body of selections appears under the categories of descriptions, attempts at explanation, and alternate approaches. As specific orientations to creativity can be traced to particular initiating thinkers and investigators, there is a special chapter on seminal accounts containing selections from the works of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Galton, and Freud. Another chapter includes recent illustrations of special types of exploratory trends: creativity of women, brain research, synectics, extrasensory perception, behaviorism, and creativity computer programming. This organization highlights the tension between strictly scientific accounts and alternative approaches offering new ways of understanding. The editors have provided for the books as a whole and for each chapter explanation and discussion of the basic issues raised by the various approaches to creativity.