The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America's Mentally Ill Pdf

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Release: 1994-02-21
Publisher: Free Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0029126959
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Americans want to be humane toward the mentally ill, yet we have always been divided about what is best for them and for society. Now, the foremost historian of the care of the mentally ill compellingly recounts our various attempts to solve this ever-present dilemma. In the first comprehensive one-volume history of the treatment of the mentally ill, Gerald Grob begins with colonial America, when families and local communities accepted responsibility for their mentally ill members. Their solutions varied, from confinement under lock and key, to granting mentally ill persons a wide measure of autonomy. As American society grew larger and more complex, the first mental hospitals were created to deal with growing numbers of the severely and persistently mentally ill. Grob brings to life the charismatic and innovative individuals who administered these hospitals and shows how they were successful at first in providing humane care and treatment. But under the pressure of too many patients a Download The Mad Among Us for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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