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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815151803321

Autore

De Young Mary <1949->

Titolo

Encyclopedia of asylum therapeutics, 1750-1950s / / Mary de Young

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jefferson, North Carolina : , : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4766-1788-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Disciplina

616.89003

Soggetti

Psychiatry

Psychiatric hospitals - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface; The Entries; Awakenings; Bed Therapy; Cerebral Stimulation (Psychic Stimulation); Color Cure (Chromotherapy, Colorology); Counterirritation; Deep Sleep Therapy (Prolonged Narcosis, Prolonged Sleep, Continuous Sleep); Depletive Therapy ("Heroic Therapy," Antiphlogistic Therapy, "Rush's System"); Diet; Electrotherapy; Etherization; Exodontia; Expressive Therapy; Fever Therapy (Pyrotherapy, Pyretotherapy); Fixing (The Eye, Catching the Eye, the Gaze, the Clinical Gaze); Forced Feeding (Forced Alimentation, Gavage); Genital Surgery

Hydrotherapy (Hydropathy)Hypothermia (Cold Narcosis, Refrigeration Therapy, Frozen Sleep); Isolation; Masks, Gags and Toggles; Mechanical Restraints; Metallotherapy (Metalloscopy, Burquism); Moral Treatment (Moral Management, Moral Therapy); Organotherapy (Opotherapy, Séquardotherapy, Histotherapy, Zootherapy, Materia Medica Animalis); Orthomolecular Therapy; Ovarian Compression; Phototherapy (Light Therapy); Pious Frauds (Salutary Demonstrations, Innocent Ruses, Curative Ruses, Suggestive Therapies); Psychic Driving, Accelerated Psychotherapy, or Automated Psychotherapy; Psychosurgery

Rotation, Oscillation and VibrationSalutary Fear; Shock Therapy (Convulsive Therapy); Surgery; Total Push; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The mentally ill have always been with us, but once confined in



institutions their treatment has not always been of much interest or concern. This work makes a case for why it should be. Using published reports, studies, and personal narratives of doctors and patients, this book reveals how therapeutics have always been embedded in their particular social and historical moment, and how they have linked extant medical knowledge, practitioner skill and the expectations of patients who experienced their own disorders in different ways. Three centuries of asylum therapeutics are detailed in encycl