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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Customers and patrons of the mad-trade Customers and patrons of the mad-trade Andrew T. Scull,Jonathan Andrews,Jonathan Andrews "This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book ke… OL12397343W
The transnational unconscious The transnational unconscious Joy Damousi "This collection of essays approaches the history of psychoanalysis from a transnational perspective, emphasizing the flows of people, ideas and institutions across cultures and nations, and examinin… OL16957994W
Shrinks Shrinks Jeffrey A. Lieberman Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public. But, as Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, reveals, the path to le… OL20000019W
Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum Jennifer Wallis This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the ?truth? of menta… OL20831118W
The discovery of the unconscious The discovery of the unconscious Henri F. Ellenberger In this study of the history of dynamic psychiatry, Ellenberger provides an account of the early history of psychology covering such figures as Franz Anton Mesmer, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Ad… OL4319347W