TY - BOOK AU - Grob,Gerald N. TI - The mad among us: a history of the care of America's mentally ill SN - 0029126959 : AV - RC 443 .G747 1994 PY - 1994/// CY - New York, Toronto, New York PB - Free Press, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Maxwell Macmillan International KW - Mentally ill KW - Care KW - United States KW - History KW - Psychiatry KW - Public opinion KW - Psychisch gestoorden KW - gtt KW - Mentally disordered persons N1 - 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 ER -