Author: Gerald N. Grob
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439105715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
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-present dilemma from colonial times to the present. Gerald Grob charts the growth of mental hospitals in response to the escalating numbers of the severely and persistently mentally ill and the deterioration of these hospitals under 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. While 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 indispensable reference and a call for a humane and balanced policy in the future.
Mad Among Us
Author: Gerald N. Grob
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439105715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
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-present dilemma from colonial times to the present. Gerald Grob charts the growth of mental hospitals in response to the escalating numbers of the severely and persistently mentally ill and the deterioration of these hospitals under 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. While 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 indispensable reference and a call for a humane and balanced policy in the future.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439105715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
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-present dilemma from colonial times to the present. Gerald Grob charts the growth of mental hospitals in response to the escalating numbers of the severely and persistently mentally ill and the deterioration of these hospitals under 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. While 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 indispensable reference and a call for a humane and balanced policy in the future.
Lunch Walks Among Us
Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442495162
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Franny K. Stein is not your average girl—she’s a mad scientist. She prefers poison ivy to daisies, and when Franny jumps rope, she uses her pet snake. The kids in Franny’s class think she’s weird, wacky, and just plain creepy. Tired of being stared at, Franny decides to attempt her most dangerous experiment yet—she’s going to fit in. But when a giant Monstrous Fiend attacks the class, everyone knows only a true mad scientist can save the day. But has Franny lost her creepy, crawly ways?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442495162
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Franny K. Stein is not your average girl—she’s a mad scientist. She prefers poison ivy to daisies, and when Franny jumps rope, she uses her pet snake. The kids in Franny’s class think she’s weird, wacky, and just plain creepy. Tired of being stared at, Franny decides to attempt her most dangerous experiment yet—she’s going to fit in. But when a giant Monstrous Fiend attacks the class, everyone knows only a true mad scientist can save the day. But has Franny lost her creepy, crawly ways?
Among Us Mad Libs
Author: Tomomi Sato
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Let's come and get yourself this interesting book to have more relaxing time with your friends and family. Mad libs is super fun to play with friends or even you can play by yourself. Come to this book, the game inside which is filling the blank spaces will bring you lots of laughter and joy. You will be satisfied with this item because we created this one with carefulness so that it will meet all your expectations. Through playing this game, you will have many hours of relaxing and relieving stress. Moreover, it is also a chance for you to be creative and boost imagination. This mad libs book has high-quality pages and bright papers with perfect size 8.5x11 inch so that it is easy for you to bring along. The paper is good that you can use pencil or even pen. Come check out and purchase this item or you will regret.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Let's come and get yourself this interesting book to have more relaxing time with your friends and family. Mad libs is super fun to play with friends or even you can play by yourself. Come to this book, the game inside which is filling the blank spaces will bring you lots of laughter and joy. You will be satisfied with this item because we created this one with carefulness so that it will meet all your expectations. Through playing this game, you will have many hours of relaxing and relieving stress. Moreover, it is also a chance for you to be creative and boost imagination. This mad libs book has high-quality pages and bright papers with perfect size 8.5x11 inch so that it is easy for you to bring along. The paper is good that you can use pencil or even pen. Come check out and purchase this item or you will regret.
Mad in America
Author: Robert Whitaker
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1541646398
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
An updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through "cures" that only deepened their suffering and impaired their hope of recovery Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded about their efficacy. The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs. In what is perhaps Whitaker's most damning revelation, Mad in America examines how drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed their studies to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were more effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects. A haunting, deeply compassionate book -- updated with a new introduction and prologue bringing in the latest medical treatments and trends -- Mad in America raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, the meaning of "insanity," and what we value most about the human mind.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1541646398
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
An updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through "cures" that only deepened their suffering and impaired their hope of recovery Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded about their efficacy. The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs. In what is perhaps Whitaker's most damning revelation, Mad in America examines how drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed their studies to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were more effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects. A haunting, deeply compassionate book -- updated with a new introduction and prologue bringing in the latest medical treatments and trends -- Mad in America raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, the meaning of "insanity," and what we value most about the human mind.
Monsters Among Us
Author: Monica Rodden
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593125886
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Fans of Sadie and You will be riveted by this compulsively readable new thriller about a survivor of dating violence who uses her newfound awareness of everyday evil to hunt for a killer. When Catherine Ellers returns home after her first semester at college, she is seeking refuge from a night she can barely piece together, dreads remembering, and refuses to talk about. She tries to get back to normal, but just days later the murder of someone close to her tears away any illusion of safety. Catherine feels driven to face both violent events head on in hopes of finding the perpetrators and bringing them to justice with the help of her childhood friend, Henry. Then a stranger from college arrives with her lost coat, missing driver's license--and details to help fill in the gaps in her memory that could be the key to solving both mysteries. But who is Andrew Worthington and why is he offering to help her? And what other dangerous obsessions is her sleepy town hiding? Surrounded by secrets and lies, Catherine must unravel the truth--before this wolf in sheep's clothing strikes again.
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593125886
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Fans of Sadie and You will be riveted by this compulsively readable new thriller about a survivor of dating violence who uses her newfound awareness of everyday evil to hunt for a killer. When Catherine Ellers returns home after her first semester at college, she is seeking refuge from a night she can barely piece together, dreads remembering, and refuses to talk about. She tries to get back to normal, but just days later the murder of someone close to her tears away any illusion of safety. Catherine feels driven to face both violent events head on in hopes of finding the perpetrators and bringing them to justice with the help of her childhood friend, Henry. Then a stranger from college arrives with her lost coat, missing driver's license--and details to help fill in the gaps in her memory that could be the key to solving both mysteries. But who is Andrew Worthington and why is he offering to help her? And what other dangerous obsessions is her sleepy town hiding? Surrounded by secrets and lies, Catherine must unravel the truth--before this wolf in sheep's clothing strikes again.
Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940
Author: Gerald N. Grob
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691656800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Gerald N. Grob's Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 has become a classic of American social history. Here the author continues his investigations by a study of the complex interrelationships of patients, psychiatrists, mental hospitals, and government between 1875 and World War II. Challenging the now prevalent notion that mental hospitals in this period functioned as jails, he finds that, despite their shortcomings, they provided care for people unable to survive by themselves. From a rich variety of previously unexploited sources, he shows how professional and political concerns, rather than patient needs, changed American attitudes toward mental hospitals from support to antipathy. Toward the end of the 1800s psychiatrists shifted their attention toward therapy and the mental hygiene movement and away from patient care. Concurrently, the patient population began to include more aged people and people with severe somatic disorders, whose condition recluded their caring for themselves. In probing these changes, this work clarifies a central issue of decent and humane health care. Gerald N. Grob is Professor of History at Rutgers University. Among his works are Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 (Free Press), Edward Jarvis and the Medical World of Nineteenth-Century America (Tennessee), and The State and the Mentality III (North Carolina). Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691656800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Gerald N. Grob's Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 has become a classic of American social history. Here the author continues his investigations by a study of the complex interrelationships of patients, psychiatrists, mental hospitals, and government between 1875 and World War II. Challenging the now prevalent notion that mental hospitals in this period functioned as jails, he finds that, despite their shortcomings, they provided care for people unable to survive by themselves. From a rich variety of previously unexploited sources, he shows how professional and political concerns, rather than patient needs, changed American attitudes toward mental hospitals from support to antipathy. Toward the end of the 1800s psychiatrists shifted their attention toward therapy and the mental hygiene movement and away from patient care. Concurrently, the patient population began to include more aged people and people with severe somatic disorders, whose condition recluded their caring for themselves. In probing these changes, this work clarifies a central issue of decent and humane health care. Gerald N. Grob is Professor of History at Rutgers University. Among his works are Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 (Free Press), Edward Jarvis and the Medical World of Nineteenth-Century America (Tennessee), and The State and the Mentality III (North Carolina). Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Unofficial Guide to Among Us
Author: Mark Powers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Do you want to be an expert crewmate, and an even better imposter? Do you constantly get killed, called "sus," or even worse, ejected? This guide will get even the most inexperienced player of Among Us up to speed so that they can more easily spot the imposter, complete their tasks, or pull off the perfect crime.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Do you want to be an expert crewmate, and an even better imposter? Do you constantly get killed, called "sus," or even worse, ejected? This guide will get even the most inexperienced player of Among Us up to speed so that they can more easily spot the imposter, complete their tasks, or pull off the perfect crime.
Mood Science
Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534413456
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Fans of Goosebumps and Bill Nye the Science Guy will fall head over heels for Franny K. Stein, who is back with another laugh-out-loud experimental adventure in the tenth book in the Mad Scientist series. Franny K. Stein has had quite enough of her feelings getting in the way. So she physically removes them with the help of one of her machines. But it turns out that not having feelings can make things even worse, especially when you’ve accidentally released a virus that’s turning everybody into toads. Good thing she has the help of her grandma, Granny Fran, and her Sense of Duty to help her shake the apathy.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534413456
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Fans of Goosebumps and Bill Nye the Science Guy will fall head over heels for Franny K. Stein, who is back with another laugh-out-loud experimental adventure in the tenth book in the Mad Scientist series. Franny K. Stein has had quite enough of her feelings getting in the way. So she physically removes them with the help of one of her machines. But it turns out that not having feelings can make things even worse, especially when you’ve accidentally released a virus that’s turning everybody into toads. Good thing she has the help of her grandma, Granny Fran, and her Sense of Duty to help her shake the apathy.
Traitors Among Us
Author: Stuart A. Herrington
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
America's chief spy catcher between 1983 and 1994 reveals his own Cold War memoir of a career spent chasing down spooks, moles, and traitors in the U.S., most notably Clyde Conrad, the most damaging spy in American history.
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
America's chief spy catcher between 1983 and 1994 reveals his own Cold War memoir of a career spent chasing down spooks, moles, and traitors in the U.S., most notably Clyde Conrad, the most damaging spy in American history.
Martian Manhunter
Author: A. J. Lieberman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781401213350
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Collecting the 8-issue miniseries shedding new light on the popular JLAmember! When J'onn J'onzz learns he may not be the last of his race after all,it sends him on a mission to seek the real facts about his past and hislong-lost race. Martian Manhunter will stop at nothing to discover the truthabout himself and the world he lives in!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781401213350
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Collecting the 8-issue miniseries shedding new light on the popular JLAmember! When J'onn J'onzz learns he may not be the last of his race after all,it sends him on a mission to seek the real facts about his past and hislong-lost race. Martian Manhunter will stop at nothing to discover the truthabout himself and the world he lives in!