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Psychology & Psychiatry : History

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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 more...

Price: $140.00


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. more...

Price: $100.00


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. more...

Price: $63.00


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. more...

Price: $23.95


Muses, Madmen, and Prophets
By: Smith, Daniel B.
Published by: The Penguin Group (USA)

The strange history of auditory hallucination throughout the ages, and its power to shed light on the mysterious inner source of pure faith and unadulterated inspiration. Auditory hallucination is one of the most awe-inspiring, terrifying, and ill-understood tricks the human psyche is capable of. Muses, Madmen, and Prophets reevaluates the popular conception of the phenomenon today and through the ages, and reveals the roots of the medical understanding and treatment of it. It probes history, literature, anthropology, psychology, and neurology to explain and demystify the experience of hearing voices, in a fascinating and at times funny quest for understanding. Daniel B. Smith's personal experience with the phenomenon-his father heard voices, and it was the great torment and shame of his father's life-and his discovery that some people learn to live in peace with their voices fuels this contemplative, brilliantly researched, and inspired book. Science has not been able to fully explain the phenomenon of auditory hallucination. It is a condition that has existed perhaps as long as we have-there is evidence of it in literature and even pre-literate oral histories from across all times and cultures. Smith presents the sophisticated and radical argument that a negative side effect of living as we do in this great age of medical science is that we have come to limit this phenomenon to nothing more than a biochemical glitch for which the only proper response is medical, pharmaceutical treatment. This "pathological assumption" can inflict great harm on the people who hear voices by ignoring the meaning and reality of the experience for them. But it also obscures from the rest of us a rich wellspring of knowledge about the essential source of faith and inspiration. As Smith examines the many incidences of people who have famously heard voices throughout history-Moses, Mohammed, Teresa of Avila, Joan of Arc, Rilke, William Blake, Socrates, and others-he con more...

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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. more...

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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. more...

Price: $29.95


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. more...

Price: $69.95


Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint
By: Brentano, Franz; Terrell, D.B.; McAlister, Linda L.; Rancurello, Anto
Published by: Routledge

This edition of Brentano's most famous work contains the text corresponding to his original 1874 manuscript. It is placed in its current philosophical context in a revealing introduction by Peter Simons. more...

Price: $45.95


Psychology, Society and Subjectivity
By: Tolman, Charles
Published by: Routledge

Charles Tolman traces the history and development of German critical psychology, from the initial dissent from mainstream psychology in the 1960s to the reconstruction of a psychology that is truly for people and not simply about people. more...

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