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Customers and patrons of the mad-trade
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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… |
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The transnational unconscious
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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… |
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Shrinks
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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… |
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Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum
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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… |
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The discovery of the unconscious
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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… |
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