Mental hygiene and psychiatry in modern Britain
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Mental hygiene and psychiatry in modern Britain
（Science, technology and medicine in modern history）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-254) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental hygiene movement within the broad sweep of modern British psychiatry, offering its own reinterpretation of important elements of this history.
Table of Contents
Preface 1. Moral Treatment and the 'Dialectic of the Family' 2. Moral Treatment for the Community at Large 3. The Mental Hygiene Movement's Emotional Contradictions 4. Dialectic Rightside Up? 5. Developing in the Womb of the Old? 6. Alternative Dialectics 7. Alienation Revisited 8. Dialectic Dismembered Afterword Bibliography Index
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