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From Madness to Mental Health: Psychiatric Disorder and Its Treatment in Western Civilization
Greg Eghigian
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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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813546667
SKU
V9780813546667
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About Greg Eghigian
Greg Eghigian is the director of the science, technology, and society program and associate professor of modern history at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Self as Project: Politics and Human Sciences in the Twentieth Century.
Reviews for From Madness to Mental Health: Psychiatric Disorder and Its Treatment in Western Civilization
"There is no comparable sourcebook dealing with mental illness in Western society and this collection of texts fills an existing void."
Gerald Grob
Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus, Rutgers University
"Mental illness has long been one of the most baffling phenomena known to us. It is devastating for the individual suffering from it and incomprehensible for those around him or her. This exquisite volume brings together a number of essential texts in the history of psychiatry, highlighting the changing ideas of physicians and the experience of madness. It is an invaluable aid to students in the history of psychiatry, psychology, medicine, and the humanities."
Hans Pols
Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
"A rich and thought-provoking collection of historical sources that remind us of the limitations of our own passing perspectives on madness and mental health."
Eric J. Engstrom
Department of History, Humboldt University, Berlin
"There is no real shortage of histories of psychiatry, but there is nothing comparable to Eghigian's compilation of key historical source texts that illuminate the changing concepts of constructs of mental disorders over time in From Madness to Mental Health."
Metapsychology
"This is an invaluable collection, highly recommended for both students and mental health researchers, as a sourcebook for ongoing study of the history of the idea of mental illness and its treatment."
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
Gerald Grob
Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus, Rutgers University
"Mental illness has long been one of the most baffling phenomena known to us. It is devastating for the individual suffering from it and incomprehensible for those around him or her. This exquisite volume brings together a number of essential texts in the history of psychiatry, highlighting the changing ideas of physicians and the experience of madness. It is an invaluable aid to students in the history of psychiatry, psychology, medicine, and the humanities."
Hans Pols
Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
"A rich and thought-provoking collection of historical sources that remind us of the limitations of our own passing perspectives on madness and mental health."
Eric J. Engstrom
Department of History, Humboldt University, Berlin
"There is no real shortage of histories of psychiatry, but there is nothing comparable to Eghigian's compilation of key historical source texts that illuminate the changing concepts of constructs of mental disorders over time in From Madness to Mental Health."
Metapsychology
"This is an invaluable collection, highly recommended for both students and mental health researchers, as a sourcebook for ongoing study of the history of the idea of mental illness and its treatment."
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare