num_pages: 160
description: Looks at how the mentally ill have been treated throughout history, focusing on advances made in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries regarding mental hospitals, medications, and social acceptance.
language: English
title: Snake Pits, Talking Cures, & Magic Bullets: A History of Mental Illness
titlecomplete: Snake Pits, Talking Cures, & Magic Bullets: A History of Mental Illness
genres: History, Psychology, Mental Illness
ratings_count: 22
publisher: Twenty First Century Books