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Mental Health in America: A Reference Handbook (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781851097890)
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Donna R. Kemp
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xThis extensive overview charts the fluctuating course of mental health policy in the United States from colonial times to today.
Mental Health in America: A Reference Handbook examines the evolution of mental health policy in America from the almshouses of colonial times and the dawn of psychoanalysis in the early 1900s to the community mental health revolution in the 1960s and the insurance problems plaguing the field today. Addressing such conditions as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, anxiety, dementia, bipolar disorder, and depression, this work explores the changing definitions and explanations of mental illness and provides detailed analyses of treatments and their effects, including electroshock therapy, lobotomy, and psychotropic drugs. Readers will meet such key players as Horace Mann, who called for the insane to be made wards of the state, and assemblywoman Helen Thomson, an involuntary-treatment advocate referred to by her opponents as "Nurse Ratchett."Author: Donna R. Kemp
ISBN-10: 1851097899
ISBN-13: 9781851097890
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2007
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.41w x 1.13d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2007 pg. 124
School Library Journal 10/01/2007 pg. 93
Scitech Book News 12/01/2007 pg. 81
By Donna R. Kemp
xDonna R. Kemp is professor of public administration and MPA Coordinator of the Department of Political Science at California State University, Chico, CA. Her published works include Biomedical Policy and Mental Health and Mental Health in the Workplace: An Employer's and Manager's Guide.
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