The Beginnings of American psychiatric thought and practice: five accounts, 1811-1830.
Series: Mental illness and social policy: the American experience
Publisher: Arno Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Psychiatry -- Early works to 1900.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint of Account of the rise and progress of the asylum, first published by Kimber and Conrad, Philadelphia, 1814: of An inaugural dissertation on insanity, by T. R. Beck, first published New York, 1811; of Hints for introducing an improved mode of treating the insane in the asylum, by T. Eddy, first published New York, 1815; of Proposals for establishing a retreat for the insane, by G. Parkman, first published Boston, 1814; of A discourse on mental philosophy as connected with mental disease, by R. Wyman, first published Boston, 1830.