Managing Madness (Psychology Revivals): Changing Ideas and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138818699 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 408 str.

Joan Busfield

Opis

Psychiatry regularly comes under attack as a way of caring for and controlling the mentally ill. Originally published in 1986, this title explores the history and theory of psychiatry to illuminate current practice at the time, and shows why mental health services had developed in particular ways.

Spis treści

Preface  Part 1: Theoretical Issues  1. Psychiatry and Medicine: Thought and Practice  2. Conceptualizing and Identifying Illnesses  3. Deviance, Social Control and Mental Illness  4. Medicine and Power  Part 2: Historical Developments  5. The Trade in Healing and Lunacy  6. Lunatic Hospitals and Moral Treatment  7. The Establishment of Public Asylums  8. Custodial Institutions  9. Inside and Outside the Asylum  10. Community Care  11. Conclusion.  Bibliography.  Name Index.  Subject Index.

O autorze

Joan Busfield