Mental health in America : a reference handbook / Donna R. Kemp.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary world issuesPublication details: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Contemporary World Issues, 2007.Description: xiv, 315 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1851097899 : HRD
  • 9781851097890
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.2 22
LOC classification:
  • RA790.6 .K45 2007
Online resources: Summary: Mental Health in America: A Reference Handbook examines the evolution of mental health policy in America from the almshouses of colonial times and the dawn of psychoanalysis in the early 1900s to the community mental health revolution in the 1960s and the insurance problems plaguing the field today. Addressing such conditions as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, anxiety, dementia, bipolar disorder, suicide and depression, this work explores the changing definitions and explanations of mental illness and provides detailed analyses of treatments and their effects, including electroshock therapy, lobotomy, and psychotropic drugs.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mental Health in America: A Reference Handbook examines the evolution of mental health policy in America from the almshouses of colonial times and the dawn of psychoanalysis in the early 1900s to the community mental health revolution in the 1960s and the insurance problems plaguing the field today. Addressing such conditions as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, anxiety, dementia, bipolar disorder, suicide and depression, this work explores the changing definitions and explanations of mental illness and provides detailed analyses of treatments and their effects, including electroshock therapy, lobotomy, and psychotropic drugs.

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