The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of Americas Mentally Ill
The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of Americas Mentally Ill Books
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In the first comprehensive one-volume history of the treatment of the mentally ill, the foremost historian in the field compellingly recounts our various attempts to solve this ever-bestow dilemma from colonial times to the bestow.
Gerald Grob charts the growth of mental hospitals in response to the getting larger numbers of the severely and persistently mentally ill and the deterioration of these hospitals below the pressure of too many patients and too few resources. Mounting criticism of psychiatric techniques such as shock therapies, drugs, and lobotomies and of mental institutions as inhumane places led to a new emphasis on community care and treatment. Even as some patients benefited from the new community policies, they were ineffective for many mentally ill substance abusers. Grob’s definitive history points the way to new solutions. It is at once an obligatory reference and a call for a humane and balanced policy in the future.
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