Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness 1488376249

Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness 9780813560526

Shock therapy is making a comeback today in the treatment of serious mental illness. Despite its reemergence as a safe a

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Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness 9780465094202, 9780465094196

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Ethics in Electroconvulsive Therapy 041594659X, 9780415946599

Few mental illness treatments are more reviled in the public mind than Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy. However, in real

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Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference: A History of Mental Illness in the Criminal Court 9781503630321, 9781503637368

In Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference, Chloé Deambrogio explores how developments in the field of forensic psychiatr

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Logic of Madness : A New Theory of Mental Illness 9780992796143

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Doctoring the Mind: Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good? 9780814739143

Toward the end of the twentieth century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in biological solutio

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Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon 0268200726, 9780268200725

This book investigates the psychological toll of conflict in the Middle East during the twentieth century, including dis

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The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press 1108845916, 9781108845915, 9781108991278, 9781108994040

Mental health is a matter of vital importance in today's society, with the news media reporting on the topic on an

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Mental Health, Mental Illness and Migration (Mental Health and Illness Worldwide) 9811023646, 9789811023644

This book unravels the mental health challenges of the migrants and the socio economic and cultural conditions that bear

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Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation's Capital 019085264X, 9780190852641

From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' mo

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