Mental Health in America - A Reference Handbook (Hardcover, New)

This extensive overview charts the fluctuating course of mental health policy in the United States from colonial times to today. Mental Health in America: A Reference Handbook examines the evolution of mental health policy in America from the almshouses of colonial times and the dawn of psychoanalysis in the early 1900s to the community mental health revolution in the 1960s and the insurance problems plaguing the field today. Addressing such conditions as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, anxiety, dementia, bipolar disorder, and depression, this work explores the changing definitions and explanations of mental illness and provides detailed analyses of treatments and their effects, including electroshock therapy, lobotomy, and psychotropic drugs. Readers will meet such key players as Horace Mann, who called for the insane to be made wards of the state, and assemblywoman Helen Thomson, an involuntary-treatment advocate referred to by her opponents as "Nurse Ratchett." A summary of court cases demonstrates the impact of legislation on mental health policy in the United States A detailed chronology of key events, reform movements, legislation, such as the National Mental Health Act of 1946, and landmark research findings

General

Imprint:	ABC-CLIO Ltd
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Contemporary World Issues
Release date:	March 2007
First published:	March 2007
Authors:	Donna R. Kemp
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	315
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-85109-789-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Care of the mentally ill Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-85109-789-9
Barcode:	9781851097890

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