Title: Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s
Description: "The mentally ill have always been with us, but once confined in institutions their treatment has not always been of much interest or concern. Using published reports, studies, and personal narratives of doctors and patients, this book reveals how therapeutics have always been embedded in their particular social and historical moment"--
Subjects: Mental illness, Psychiatry, Encyclopedias, Mental Disorders, Therapy, English, Commitment of Mentally Ill, History, History, 18th Century, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, Psychiatric Hospitals