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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 960

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Author: C. L. Robertson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752533587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

Author: C.L.Robertson, M.D. Cantab
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Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1228

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Category : Psychiatry
Languages : en
Pages : 1218

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Author: Catherine Cox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108834558
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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The first historical study to offer an in-depth exploration of the complex relationship between the prison and mental breakdown.

Author: Jordanna Bailkin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520289471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381

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This book investigates how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s, and examines the relationship between the postwar and the postimperial.

Author: Phil Fennell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113489967X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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Phil Fennell's tightly argued study traces the history of treatment of mental disorder in Britain over the last 150 years. He focuses specifically on treatment of mental disorder without consent within psychiatric practice, and on the legal position which has allowed it. Treatment Without Consent examines many controversial areas: the use of high-strength drugs and Electro Convulsive Therapy, physical restraint and the vexed issue of the sterilisation of people with learning disabilities. Changing notions of consent are discussed, from the common perception that relatives are able to consent on behalf of the patient, to present-day statutory and common law rules, and recent Law Commission recommendations. This work brings a complex and intriguing area to life; it includes a table of legal sources and an extensive bibliography. It is essential reading for historians, lawyers and all those who are interested in the treatment of mental disorder.

Author: Sarah Chaney
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780237960
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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It’s a troubling phenomenon that many of us think of as a modern psychological epidemic, a symptom of extreme emotional turmoil in young people, especially young women: cutting and self-harm. But few of us know that it was 150 years ago—with the introduction of institutional asylum psychiatry—that self-mutilation was first described as a category of behavior, which psychiatrists, and later psychologists and social workers, attempted to understand. With care and focus, Psyche on the Skin tells the secret but necessary history of self-harm from the 1860s to the present, showing just how deeply entrenched this practice is in human culture. Sarah Chaney looks at many different kinds of self-injurious acts, including sexual self-mutilation and hysterical malingering in the late Victorian period, self-marking religious sects, and self-mutilation and self-destruction in art, music, and popular culture. As she shows, while self-harm is a widespread phenomenon found in many different contexts, it doesn’t necessarily have any kind of universal meaning—it always has to be understood within the historical and cultural context that surrounds it. Bravely sharing her own personal experiences with self-harm and placing them within its wider history, Chaney offers a sensitive but engaging account—supported with powerful images—that challenges the misconceptions and controversies that surround this often misunderstood phenomenon. The result is crucial reading for therapists and other professionals in the field, as well as those affected by this emotive, challenging act.

Author: John Mathai Panickacheril
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1036410218
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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This book highlights the methods of clinical examination and describes concisely the various signs and symptoms in psychiatry. Substantial up-to-date knowledge and skills in clinical examination and descriptive psychopathology are essential prerequisites for good clinical practice. The book provides a practical and clinical approach to the examination of patients, focusing on the fundamentals and deliberately avoiding complexity. It is concise, lucid, comprehensive and up-to-date. It was written primarily for postgraduate doctors in psychiatry and novices in the specialty. The clinical skills and knowledge in psychopathology that this book will provide for postgraduate psychiatry trainees may serve as the fundamental building blocks for their clinical practice, and will also be beneficial for other doctors, medical graduate students and mental health professionals, helping them to get to know the basics in psychiatry, deepen their understanding of its relevance and endorse psychiatry as a division in medicine.