AMERICAN MADNESS [Kindle Edition]
Author: Richard Noll | Language: English | ISBN: B006LWOL74 | Format: PDF, EPUB
AMERICAN MADNESS
Download books file now AMERICAN MADNESS from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link In 1895 not a single case of dementia praecox was reported in the United States. By 1912 tens of thousands of people with this diagnosis were locked up in asylums, hospitals, and jails. By 1927 it was fading away. This book explains how such a terrible disease could be discovered, affect so many lives, and then turn out to be something else. Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation AMERICAN MADNESS [Kindle Edition]
Download books file now AMERICAN MADNESS from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link In 1895 not a single case of dementia praecox was reported in the United States. By 1912 tens of thousands of people with this diagnosis were locked up in asylums, hospitals, and jails. By 1927 it was fading away. This book explains how such a terrible disease could be discovered, affect so many lives, and then turn out to be something else. Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation AMERICAN MADNESS [Kindle Edition]
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- Print Length: 408 pages
- Publisher: Harvard University Press; 1 edition (October 24, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B006LWOL74
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #969,899 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
"American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox" by Richard Noll, Ph.D., is a meticulously researched and referenced book not only about the history of dementia praecox, but also about the history of psychiatry and psychiatric research in the U.S. in the early 1900s. Relying heavily upon primary source material, Dr. Noll presents a thoughtful analysis of the influence in the U.S. of the German neuropsychiatrist Emil Kraepelin and his European colleagues regarding the diagnosis and elusive causes of dementia praecox and other mental disorders; and the attempts to cure these disorders with mostly ineffective treatments of the time.
There are a number of "pearls" in this book that are difficult--or impossible--to find elsewhere: the contributions to the founding of the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital by friends of Harry K. Thaw--found not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity for the 1906 sensational slaying of New York architect Stanford White; the radical intestinal surgeries performed by Dr. Bayard Holmes of Chicago, which led to the death of his son and others, after years of painstaking research by him to eradicate focal infections believed to cause dementia praecox; the rise of psychoanalysis in America and its effect on classifications and causes of psychiatric disorders for years to come; and the relationship between dementia praecox and later, related concepts of schizophrenia.
In "American Madness" there is hard-to-find biographical information on a great number of "alienists," to use the term of the time, both well-known and obscure.
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