Kaysen writes of her experiences, augmented by pages from her medical record, in a psychiatric hospital and of the social and emotional assumptions that divide people into deviant or normal.
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In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele…
"Provides a leading point of reference in the field of partial defences to murder and with respect to the mental condition defences of loss of control and diminished responsibility in general. The work includes contributions from leading specialists from different jurisdictions.…
The use of coercion is one of the defining issues of mental health care. Since the earliest attempts to contain and treat the mentally ill, power imbalances have been evident and a cause of controversy. There has always been a delicate balance between respecting autonomy and ens…
Coercion in Community Mental Health Care: International Perspectives is an essential introduction to the use of coercion in mental health care.
"It has been said that how a society treats its least fortunate members speaks volumes about its humanity. If so, our treatment of the mentally ill may suggest that American society is in many senses inhumane: swinging between overintervention and utter neglect, we sometimes for…
"It has been said that how a society treats its least fortunate members speaks volumes about its humanity. If so, our treatment of the mentally ill may suggest that American society is in many senses inhumane: swinging between overintervention and utter neglect, we sometimes for…
An insight into an insane asylum
by ebrary, Inc, Camp, Joseph, Hughes, John S.
fromLibrary of Alabama classics
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An insight into an insane asylum
by Camp, Joseph, Hughes, John S.
fromLibrary of Alabama classics
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Type: Book
An insight into an insane asylum
by Camp, Joseph, Hughes, John S.
fromThe library of Alabama classics
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Type: Book
An insight into an insane asylum
by Camp, Joseph, Hughes, John S.
fromLibrary of Alabama classics
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Type: Book
An insight into an insane asylum
by Camp, Joseph, Hughes, John S.
fromLibrary of Alabama classics
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Type: Book
"In 1881, Joseph Camp, an elderly and self-trained Methodist minister from Talladega County in eastern Alabama, was brought by his family to BryceHospital, an insane asylum in Tuscaloosa, where he remained for over five months. Camp, misled by relatives concerning the purpose of…
This book provides an overview of forensic psychiatry, focusing on the provision of care in Europe as well as the legal and ethical challenges posed by long-term stays in forensic settings. Forensic psychiatric services provide care and treatment for mentally disordered offender…
