The quest for mental health  -  Ian Robert Dowbiggin

a tale of science, medicine, scandal, sorrow, and mass society

KORTE INHOUD

"This is the story of one of the most far-reaching human endeavors in history: the quest for mental well-being. From its origins in the eighteenth century to its wide scope in the early twenty-first, this search for emotional health and welfare has cost billions. In the name of mental health, millions around the world have been tranquilized, institutionalized, psycho-analyzed, sterilized, lobotomized and even euthanized. Yet at the dawn of the new millennium, reported rates of depression and anxiety are unp...
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2011 Uitgever: University Press Cambridge 248 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 052168868X ISBN-13: 9780521688680