In Search of Madness :
A Psychiatrist's Travels Through the History of Mental Illness /
Brendan Kelly.
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| Summary: | In search of madness is an all-encompassing history of one of the most basic fears to haunt the human psyche, and it concludes with a passionate manifesto for change: four proposals to make mental health services more effective, accessible and just. In this fascinating new exploration of mental illness, Professor Brendan Kelly examines 'madness' in history and how we have responded to it over the centuries. We travel from the psychiatric institions of modern India to scientific studies of the brain in Victorian England. We discover the beginnings of formal asylum care and witness the experimental therapies of the cavernous psychiatric hospitals of the ninteenth and early twentieth centurie sin Ireland, England, Belgium, Italy, Germany and the United States. Covering lobotomy and the Nazis' Aktion T4 campaign, as well as Freud, psychoanalysis, cognitive behaviorual therapy and neuroscience, In Search of Madness examines the shift in recent times from 'psychobabble' to 'neurobabble'. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dublin :
Gill Books,
2022.
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-288) and index. Physical description: 9 unnumbered pages, 326 pages ; 24 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 9780717193783 0717193780 |
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