Great and desperate cures : the rise and decline of psychosurgery and other radical treatments for mental illness

Author(s)

• Valenstein, Elliot S.

Bibliographic Information

Great and desperate cures : the rise and decline of psychosurgery and other radical treatments for mental illness

Elliot S. Valenstein

Basic Books, c1986

Note

Bibliography: p. [298]-328

Includes index

Details

• NCID: BB10460562
• ISBN:
  • 0465027105
• LCCN: 85043104
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 338 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RD594
  • DC19 : 616.89/1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Psychosurgery -- History
  • LCSH : Frontal lobotomy -- History
  • LCSH : Mental illness -- Treatment -- History
  • MESH : Mental Disorders -- therapy
  • MESH : Psychosurgery