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Gerald N. Grob

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Description:Gerald Grob examines the complex interrelationships 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."What caused deinstitutionalization? Why were psychiatrists and other mental health workers willing to allow responsbility for partients to be shifted from mental hospitals (largely public) that provided long-term custodial care to local communities? Gerald Grob's excellent new book is the first to provide a convincing explanation for that transition." - Lawrence J. Friedman, Reviews in American History"Gerald Grob has been exploring the history of American mental hospitals for nearly twenty years, with emphasis on public policy. This book, which brings the story up to the Second World War, has a broader compass than his previous work in being more deeply concerned with public attitudes and the evolution of the psychiatric profession. It is also a counter-revisionist work, a careful scholar's answer Michel Foucault, David Rothman, Andrew Scull, and other historians who are united, Grob says, in having a critical if not hostile view of psychiatry and mental hospitals." - Norman Dain, American Historical ReviewWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940 (Princeton Legacy Library). To get started finding Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940 (Princeton Legacy Library), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Gerald Grob examines the complex interrelationships 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."What caused deinstitutionalization? Why were psychiatrists and other mental health workers willing to allow responsbility for partients to be shifted from mental hospitals (largely public) that provided long-term custodial care to local communities? Gerald Grob's excellent new book is the first to provide a convincing explanation for that transition." - Lawrence J. Friedman, Reviews in American History"Gerald Grob has been exploring the history of American mental hospitals for nearly twenty years, with emphasis on public policy. This book, which brings the story up to the Second World War, has a broader compass than his previous work in being more deeply concerned with public attitudes and the evolution of the psychiatric profession. It is also a counter-revisionist work, a careful scholar's answer Michel Foucault, David Rothman, Andrew Scull, and other historians who are united, Grob says, in having a critical if not hostile view of psychiatry and mental hospitals." - Norman Dain, American Historical ReviewWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940 (Princeton Legacy Library). To get started finding Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940 (Princeton Legacy Library), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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