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The Lives They Left Behind
By: Penney, Darby; Stastny, Peter
Published by: Bellevue Literary Press
More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients’ belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation. They are skillfully examined here and compared to the written record to create a moving—and devastating—group portrait of twentieth-century American psychiatric care.
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Price: $14.95
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The Loss of Sadness
By: Horwitz, Allan V.; Wakefield, Jerome C.
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA
Foreword by Robert Spitzer, M.D. Preface. 1. The Concept of Depression. 2. The Anatomy of Normal Sadness. 3. Sadness With and Without Case: Depression from Ancient Times through the Nineteenth Century. 4. Depression in the Twentieth Century. 5. 6. Importing Pathology into the Community. 7. The Surveillance of Sadness. 8. The DSM and Biological Research about Depression. 9. The Rise of Antidepressant Drug Treatments. 10. The Failure of hte Social Sciences to Distinguish Sadness from Depressive Disorder. 11. Conclusion. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index
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Price: $31.95
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Madness in its Place
By: Gittins, Diana
Published by: Routledge
This book provides an unusual and very accessible account of trends and changes in the history of psychiatry during the 20th century, while offering a lively narrative of the daily lives of those who worked and lived in a typical psychiatric hospital
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Price: $140.00
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Madness in Seventeenth-century Autobiography
By: Hodgkin, Katharine
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd.
What did it mean to be mad in seventeenth-century England? This book uses autobiographical accounts of mental disorder to explore the ways madness was identified and experienced from the inside. It asks how certain people came to be defined as insane, and what we can learn from the accounts they wrote.
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Price: $90.00
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Madness to Mental Illness
By: Bewley, Thomas
Published by: RCPsych Publications
This readable text presents the long-awaited first comprehensive history of the Royal College of Psychiatrists as an organisation, from its creation as the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane in 1841, its development through various name changes and the receipt of two charters, to become the present Royal College as we know it today.
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Price: $63.00
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Motron Deutsch
By: Frydenberg, Erica
Published by: Australian Academic Press
A book that enlightens us about one of the most distinguished psychologists of our time — his family and work life as well as illustrating the importance of using rigorous theoretical analysis to drive practical research and application in a way that can make a true difference in our everyday lives.
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Price: $23.95
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The Nation Psychology and International Politics 1870-1919
By: Sluga, Glenda
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd.
Pursues a cultural and political story of the idea of the nation, and of international politics in the early twentieth century, which situates both in the context of the history of psychology. That story begins with the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and moves backwards in time to the history of the rise of scientific psychology since 1870.
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Price: $85.00
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Performing Psychology
By: Holzman, Lois
Published by: Routledge
Through essays and stage plays by and about Fred Newman, the controversial American philosopher, psychotherapist, playwright and political activist, Performing Psychology exposes the myths of mainstream psychology.
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Price: $37.50
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Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology
By: Kimble, Gregory A. (ed.); Wertheimer, Michael (ed.)
Published by: Psychology Press
Offering glimpses into the personal and scholarly lives of 20 giants in the history of psychology, this volume comprises chapters prepared by psychology scholars on a pioneer who had made important contributions in their own area of expertise.
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Price: $42.50
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Psychiatry and Empire
By: Mahone, S.; Vaughan, M.
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd.
'Psychiatry and Empire' brings together scholars in the History of Medicine and Colonialism to explore questions of race, gender and power relations in former colonial states across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific. The volume advances our understanding of the rise of modern psychiatry as it collided with the psychology of colonial rule.
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Price: $75.00
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