The Mentally Ill in America : : A History of Their Care and Treatment from Colonial Times / / Albert Deutsch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Deutsch, Albert,
• TeilnehmendeR: White, William A.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1937]; ©1937
• Year of Publication: 1937
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (546 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; Foreword --; CHAPTER I. Prophets, Demons and Witches --; CHAPTER II .Colonial America: the Old World Heritage --; CHAPTER III. Colonial Provision for the Mentally Ill: Punishment, Repression and Indifference --; CHAPTER IV .Rational Humanitarianism : the Beginnings of Reform --; CHAPTER V. Benjamin Rush—the Father of American Psychiatry --; CHAPTER VI .The Rise of Moral Treatment --; CHAPTER VII .Retrogression: Over the Hill to the Poorhouse --; CHAPTER VIII. The Cult of Curability and the Rise of State Institutions --; CHAPTER IX. Dorothea Lynde Dix—Militant Crusader --; CHAPTER Χ. Mid-Century Psychiatrists --; CHAPTER XI. Conflict of Theories : Restraint or Non- Restraint? --; CHAPTER XII. The Trend Toward State Care --; CHAPTER XIII. State Care: Exodus from the Poorhouse --; CHAPTER XIV. Psychiatry Emerges from Isolation --; CHAPTER XV. The Mental Hygiene Movement and Its Founder --; CHAPTER XVI .Historical Backgrounds of Mental Defect --; CHAPTER XVII. Changing Concepts in Mental Defect --; CHAPTER XVIII. Insanity and the Criminal Law --; CHAPTER XIX. Our Commitment Laws --; CHAPTER XXI. Towards Mental Hygiene --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231895484; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/deut93794
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Albert Deutsch.

Presents the history of the care and treatment of those believed to be mentally ill from Colonial Times and beyond. Looks at theories of punishment, repression, and indifference through the rise of moral treatment and the trend toward state and institutional care.