Encyclopedia of asylum therapeutics, 1750-1950s / Mary de Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Young, Mary, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry--Encyclopedias.

Psychiatry.

Psychiatric hospitals--History.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The mentally ill have always been with us, but once confined in institutions their treatment has not always been of much interest or concern. This work makes a case for why it should be. Using published reports, studies, and personal narratives of doctors and patients, this book reveals how therapeutics have always been embedded in their particular social and historical moment, and how they have linked extant medical knowledge, practitioner skill and the expectations of patients who experienced their own disorders in different ways. Three centuries of asylum therapeutics are detailed in encycl

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface; The Entries; Awakenings; Bed Therapy; Cerebral Stimulation (Psychic Stimulation); Color Cure (Chromotherapy, Colorology); Counterirritation; Deep Sleep Therapy (Prolonged Narcosis, Prolonged Sleep, Continuous Sleep); Depletive Therapy ("Heroic Therapy," Antiphlogistic Therapy, "Rush's System"); Diet; Electrotherapy; Etherization; Exodontia; Expressive Therapy; Fever Therapy (Pyrotherapy, Pyretotherapy); Fixing (The Eye, Catching the Eye, the Gaze, the Clinical Gaze); Forced Feeding (Forced Alimentation, Gavage); Genital Surgery

Hydrotherapy (Hydropathy)Hypothermia (Cold Narcosis, Refrigeration Therapy, Frozen Sleep); Isolation; Masks, Gags and Toggles; Mechanical Restraints; Metallotherapy (Metalloscopy, Burquism); Moral Treatment (Moral Management, Moral Therapy); Organotherapy (Opotherapy, Séquardotherapy, Histotherapy, Zootherapy, Materia Medica Animalis); Orthomolecular Therapy; Ovarian Compression; Phototherapy (Light Therapy); Pious Frauds (Salutary Demonstrations, Innocent Ruses, Curative Ruses, Suggestive Therapies); Psychic Driving, Accelerated Psychotherapy, or Automated Psychotherapy; Psychosurgery

Rotation, Oscillation and VibrationSalutary Fear; Shock Therapy (Convulsive Therapy); Surgery; Total Push; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-1788-0