num_pages: 456
description: The comparative global history of mental health care in the twentieth century remains relatively uncharted territory. Psychiatric Cultures Compared offers an overview of various national psychiatric cultures, comparing, for example, advances in Dutch psychiatry with developments abroad. Wide-ranging essays cover analyses of the field of psychiatric nursing, the changing use of psychotropic medicine, the emergence of in- and outpatient mental health sectors, the rise of the anti-psychiatry movement, and a critical look at modern day deinstitutionalization.
language: English
title: Psychiatric Cultures Compared: Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century
titlecomplete: Psychiatric Cultures Compared: Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Amsterdam University Press