Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940

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"Gerald Grob examines the complex interrealtionships 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."--Back cover.

subjects: Psychiatric hospital care,  Psychiatric hospitals,  Mental illness,  Treatment,  Mental health policy,  Psychiatry,  Mental Disorders,  History,  Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer,  Maladies mentales,  Psychische Störung,  Santé mentale,  Psychiatrische inrichtingen,  Psychiatry - General,  Geestelijke volksgezondheid,  Psychiatrie,  Histoire,  Hôpitaux psychiatriques,  Health & Biological Sciences,  Politique gouvernementale,  Soins,  Mentally ill,  United states, social conditions

Places: United States