The mad among us : a history of the care of America's mentally ill / Gerald N. Grob.
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TextPublication details: New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1994.Description: xi, 386 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0029126959 :
- 9780029126950
- RC 443 .G747 1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-368) and index.
Caring for the insane in Colonial America -- Inventing the asylum -- The emergence of American psychiatry -- Realities of asylum life -- The problem of chronic mental illnesses, 1860-1940 -- A new psychiatry -- Depression, war, and the crisis of care -- World War II and the new models of mental illnesses -- The foundations of change in postwar America -- The new frontier and the promise of community mental health -- Confronting the mad among us in contemporary America.
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