Psychiatry, the press and the public : problems in communication

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

American Psychiatric Association.

Series:

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry--Congresses.

Psychiatry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 66 pages).

Place of Publication:

1956

Summary:

The History of Disabilities program provides access to primary sources written using terminology that was in common use by the medical establishment and general society at the time, and describes diagnoses, methodologies, procedures, and treatments that may no longer be used or were debunked by later research. Users may come across words and expressions describing individuals and groups that they find condescending, upsetting, disconcerting, offensive, and not acceptable today. MiFhGG

Notes:

"Report of a conference on special problems of communicating psychiatric subject matter of the public, held at Swampscott, Mass., June 24-26, 1955"--Page vi.

Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.

OCLC:

1296636789