Author : Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 080327064X
Seeing the Insane is a richly detailed cultural history of madness and art in the Western world, showing how the portrayal of stereotypes has both reflected and shaped the perception and treatment of the mentally disturbed.
Author : Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1501745808
Sander L. Gilman, whose pioneering work on the history of stereotypes has become a model for scholars in many fields, here examines the images that society creates of disease and its victims.
Author : G. Mackenzie Bacon
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Reference
ISBN :
On the Writing of the Insane: With Illustrations by G. Bacon Mackenzie, first published in 1870, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : Alisa Roth
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781541646476
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with such disorders. In this revelatory book, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to show how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker. Through intimate stories of people in the system and those trying to fix it, Roth reveals the hidden forces behind this crisis and suggests how a fairer and more humane approach might look. Insane is a galvanizing wake-up call for criminal justice reformers and anyone concerned about the plight of our most vulnerable.
Author : Arthur W. Bahr
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Forensic psychiatrists
ISBN : 9780425182215
The police found Janice Jensen bathed in blood, sitting on the floor, calmly munching grapes. Her family lay dead by her side and Janice seemed unaware of the carnage around her. To forensic psychiatrist Simon Rose, there was no question she had killed them. But was she criminally responsible-orhellip;
Author : Dave Barry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101609192
Seth Weinstein always knew Tina was way, way, way out of his league. Which is why he’s still astonished that he’s on a plane heading for their wedding in Florida. The Groom Posse has already pulled an airport prank on him—and he’s survived! It should be easy going from now on. But Seth has absolutely no idea what he’s about to get into. A simple drink or two with the boys sparks a series of events that will pit Seth and his friends against everything and everyone imaginable, from his very powerful, very disapproving soon-to-be father-in-law to the federal government to a love-struck orangutan. Seth’s hope for smooth sailing is turning into a trip on the Titanic. And the water is getting deeper by the minute…
Author : Nik Ripken
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1433673088
An amazing story of a missionary couple's journey into the toughest places on earth is combined with stories about remarkable people of faith they encountered to challenge and inspire those curious about the sufficiency of God.
Author : Alex Beam
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2009-07-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0786750367
Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean "alumni" include Olmsted himself, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, James Taylor and Ray Charles, as well as (more secretly) other notables from among the rich and famous. In its "golden age," McLean provided as genteel an environment for the treatment of mental illness as one could imagine. But the golden age is over, and a downsized, downscale McLean-despite its affiliation with Harvard University-is struggling to stay afloat. Gracefully Insane, by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, is a fascinating and emotional biography of McLean Hospital from its founding in 1817 through today. It is filled with stories about patients and doctors: the Ralph Waldo Emerson prot'g' whose brilliance disappeared along with his madness; Anne Sexton's poetry seminar, and many more. The story of McLean is also the story of the hopes and failures of psychology and psychotherapy; of the evolution of attitudes about mental illness, of approaches to treatment, and of the economic pressures that are making McLean-and other institutions like it-relics of a bygone age. This is a compelling and often oddly poignant reading for fans of books like Plath's The Bell Jar and Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted (both inspired by their author's stays at McLean) and for anyone interested in the history of medicine or psychotherapy, or the social history of New England.
Author : H. Prinzhorn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3662009161
No one is more conscious of the faults of this work than the author. Therefore some self -criticism should be woven into this foreward. There are two possible methodologically pure solutions to this book's theme: a de scriptive catalog of the pictures couched in the language of natural science and accom panied by a clinical and psychopathological description of the patients, or a completely metaphysically based investigation of the process of pictorial composition. According to the latter, these unusual works, explained psychologically, and the exceptional circum stances on which they are based would be integrated as a playful variation of human expression into a total picture of the ego under the concept of an inborn creative urge, behind which we would then only have to discover a universal need for expression as an instinctive foundation. In brief, such an investigation would remain in the realm of phenomenologically observed existential forms, completely independent of psychiatry and aesthetics. The compromise between these two pure solutions must necessarily be piecework and must constantly defend itself against the dangers of fragmentation. We are in danger of being satisfied with pure description, the novelistic expansion of details and questions of principle; pitfalls would be very easy to avoid if we had the use of a clearly outlined method. But the problems of a new, or at least never seriously worked, field defy the methodology of every established subject.
Author : Christine A. Adamec
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Caregivers
ISBN :
Looking after a mentally ill loved one on a daily basis presents a unique set of problems and challenges. But it is possible to provide effective and compassionate care without sacrificing the well-being of the primary caregiver or the needs of other family members.
