Grob, Gerald N., 1931-2015.

The mad among us : a history of the care of America's mentally ill / Gerald N. Grob. - New York : Toronto : New York : Free Press ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, c1994. - xi, 386 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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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Mentally ill--Care--History.--United States
Psychiatry--History.--United States
Mentally ill--Public opinion.--United States
Psychisch gestoorden.

Mentally disordered persons Care History United States

RC 443 / .G747 1994