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Desperate remedies : psychiatry's turbulent quest to cure mental illness / by Scull, Andrew,1947-author.(CARDINAL)507027;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part one. The asylum era: Mausoleums of the mad -- Disposing of degenerates -- Psychobiology -- Freud visits America -- The germ of madness -- Body and mind -- Shocking the brain -- The checkered career of electroconvulsive therapy -- Brain surgery -- Selling psychosurgery -- The end of the affair -- Part two. Disturbed minds: Creating a new psychiatry -- Talk therapy -- War -- Professional transformations -- A fragile hegemony -- Part three. A psychiatric revolution: The birth of psychopharmacology -- Community care -- Diagnosing mental illness -- The complexities of psychopharmacology -- Genetics, neuroscience, and the origins of mental illness -- The crisis of contemporary psychiatry -- Epilogue: Does psychiatry have a future?"A sweeping history of American psychiatry-from jails to hospitals to the lab to the analyst's couch-by the award-winning author of Madness in Civilization. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind-the sorts of things that were once called "madness"-have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, whose origins can be identified and from which one can be cured. But is this true? In this masterful account of America's questto understand and treat everything from anxiety to psychosis, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry today sheds light on its tumultuous past. Desperate Remedies brings together a galaxy of mind doctors working in and out of institutional settings: physicians and psychoanalysts, psychologists, neuroscientists, and therapists, social reformers and advocates of mental hygiene, as well as patients and their families desperate for relief. Andrew Scull begins with the birth of the asylumin the reformist zeal of the 1830s and carries us through to the latest drug trials and genetic studies. He carefully reconstructs the rise and fall of state-run mental hospitals, showing how the mentally ill went from prisons to asylums back to prisons,and explaining why so many of the mentally ill are now on the street. In his compelling closing chapters, he reveals how drug companies expanded their reach to treat a growing catalog of ills, deliberately concealing debilitating side effects. Deeply researched and compulsively readable, Desperate Remedies is a definitive account of America's long battle with mental illness that challenges us to rethink our deepest assumptions about who we are and how we think."--
Subjects: Mental illness; Psychiatry; Psychiatric ethics;
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Cracked : the unhappy truth about psychiatry / by Davies, James(James Peter),author.(CARDINAL)691503;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267).Psychiatry's early breakdown and the rise of the DSM -- The DSM, a great work of fiction? -- The medicalization of misery -- The depressing truth about happy pills -- Dummy pills and the healing power of belief -- Mental oddities and the the pills that cause them -- Bio-babble? -- Money and power ruling head and heart -- But they make us rich -- When science fails, marketing works -- The psychiatric myth -- Psychiatric imperialism -- How to fix the cracks?In an effort to enlighten a new generation about its growing reliance on psychiatry, this illuminating volume investigates why psychiatry has become the fastest-growing medical field in history; why psychiatric drugs are now more widely prescribed than ever before; and why psychiatry, without solid scientific justification, keeps expanding the number of mental disorders it believes to exist. This revealing volume shows that these issues can be explained by one startling fact: in recent decades psychiatry has become so motivated by power that it has put the pursuit of pharmaceutical riches above its patients' well being. Readers will be shocked and dismayed to discover that psychiatry, in the name of helping others, has actually been helping itself. In a style reminiscent of Ben Goldacre's Bad Science and investigative in tone, James Davies reveals psychiatry's hidden failings and how the field of study must change if it is to ever win back its patients' trust.
Subjects: Psychiatry; Psychiatric ethics.; Pharmaceutical industry; Mental health personnel;
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Liberation by oppression : a comparative study of slavery and psychiatry / by Szasz, Thomas,1920-2012.(CARDINAL)123696;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index.List of the author's works on verso of half title page.
Subjects: Antipsychiatry.; Involuntary treatment; Mentally ill; Paternalism; People with social disabilities; Psychiatric ethics.; Psychiatric hospitals; Slavery; Social control.;
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The devil's castle : Nazi eugenics, euthanasia, and how psychiatry's troubled history reverberates today / by Antonetta, Susanne,1956-author.(CARDINAL)701838;
Includes bibliographical references.The great wonder and the great strangeness -- The natural self-cleansing of our people : Emil Kraepelin and his legacy -- The normal and the sick : Philippe Pinel to Ernst Pienitz -- The truth in Schreber's delusions."In The Devil's Castle, Susanne Paola Antonetta weaves a haunting narrative that confronts the darkest chapters of psychiatric history while offering a bold vision for the future of mental health care. In 1939, the eugenics movement growing throughout the West did its worst in Nazi Germany. Through the Aktion T4 euthanasia program, five asylums and an abandoned jail were transformed into gas chambers. Tens of thousands of lives-predominantly adults with neuropsychiatric conditions-were extinguished in those structures, ultimately paving the way for the horrors of the Holocaust. Interlacing her experiences of psychosis with the complex history of psychiatry, Antonetta sheds light on the intersections of madness and societal perceptions of mental difference. She brings to life the stories of Paul Schreber and Dorothea Buck, two historical figures who act as models for mind care and acceptance"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Buck, Dorothea, 1917-2019.; Schreber, Daniel Paul, 1842-1911.; Aktion T4 (Germany).; Psychiatric ethics; Eugenics; Euthanasia; Psychiatric hospital care; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Schizophrenics; National socialism and science.;
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Nurses in Nazi Germany : moral choice in history / by McFarland-Icke, Bronwyn Rebekah,1965-(CARDINAL)655620;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-335) and index.
Subjects: Euthanasia; Medical ethics; Medical policy; National socialism and medicine.; Nursing ethics; Psychiatric nursing; World War, 1939-1945;
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Nursing ethics in everyday practice : a step-by-step guide / by Ulrich, Connie M.,1960-(CARDINAL)399361; Sigma Theta Tau International.(CARDINAL)756391;
Includes bibliographical references.What does the future hold for nursing care? -- Ethical decision making models -- Finding a voice in ethics : everyday ethical behavior in nursing -- Nursing ethics in everyday practice : using communication skills effectively -- Ethics consultation -- Genetics -- Research advocacy in clinical nursing -- Ethical issues in critical care -- Ethics in long term care -- Ethical challenges in transitioning to end-of-life care : exploring the meaning of a "good death" -- Ethical issues in neonatal nursing -- Pediatric ethics : what makes children different? -- Revisiting therapeutic relationship in psychiatric-mental health nursing : toward a relational ethic.
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Private means : a novel / by LeFavour, Cree,author.(CARDINAL)351159;
"A deliciously compulsive first novel from the critically acclaimed author of the memoir Lights On, Rats Out, Private Means follows two married intellectuals who find themselves at odds with one another and dare to look elsewhere for intimacy and thrills.With their daughters fully grown and their relationship fraying, Upper West Side-based couple Alice and Peter are further agitated when Alice's beloved dog, Maebelle, goes missing. As Alice mourns the loss of her dog and struggles with her own sudden infidelity, we witness Peter's psychiatric ethics unraveling as he lusts for a young patient. Tensions rise to the surface as Peter and Alice escape the heat of New York City to visit wealthy friends in the Hamptons, on Cape Cod, and in the Berkshires"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Fiction.; Adultery; Dysfunctional families; Married people; Married people.;
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Mental health in the workplace : a practical psychiatric guide / by Kahn, Jeffrey P.(CARDINAL)206906;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Personalities, personal style, and trouble getting along / Mark P. Unterberg -- Drug abuse and dependence / Jeffrey S. Rosecan -- Alcohol abuse and dependence / Carlotta L. Schuster -- Psychosis : peculiar behaviors and inflexible bizarre beliefs / Richard H. Gabel -- Emotion and illness : the psychosomatic interface / Brian L. Grant.Workplace mental health problems : recognition, management, assessment, and treatment / Jeffrey P. Kahn -- Mental health care : providers, delivery systems, and cost containment / Anne Stoline, Steven Sharfstein -- Ethics and confidentiality : mental health in the organization / Robert C. Larsen -- Psychiatry and the organization : a brief history of occupational psychiatry / Alan A. McLean -- Disability, worker's compensation, and fitness for duty / Brian L. Grant, David B. Robbins -- Executive distress : organizational consequences / Jeffrey P. Kahn, Mark P. Unterberg -- Organizational structure and change / Charles W. Swearingen -- Job loss and employment uncertainty / Nick Kates, Barrie S. Greiff, Duane Q. Hagen -- Executive development : people and organizational skills / Peter L. Brill -- Emotional crises in the workplace / Stephen H. Heidel -- Organizational consequences of family problems / David E. Morrison, David A. Deacon -- Anxiety and stress / Dan J. Stein, Eric Hollander -- Depression and burnout / David A. Van Liew --
Subjects: Industrial psychiatry.;
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The Long darkness psychological and moral perspectives on nuclear winter / by Grinspoon, Lester,1928-2020(CARDINAL)142789; American Psychiatric Association.Meeting.(CARDINAL)173358;
Bibliography: pages 207-208.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Nuclear warfare; Nuclear warfare; Nuclear winter;
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The more dangerous case of Donald Trump : 40 psychiatrists and mental health experts warn anew / by Lee, Bandy X.,1970-editor.(CARDINAL)347499;
Includes bibliographical references.Foreword to the first edition: Our witness to malignant normality / Robert Jay Lofton, M.D. -- Prologue to the first edition: Professions and politics / Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., and Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M. Div. -- Prologue to the second edition: Professions and activism / Stephen Soldz, PhD., and Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M. Div. -- Introduction: Our duty to humanity / Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M. Div. -- PART 1. Thanatos (Death drive): Pre-sentencing report on convicted criminal Donald J. Trump / James Gilligan, M.D., Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., Robert Jay Lifton, M.D., James R. Merikangas, M.D., and Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M. Div. -- The important issue is violence and dangerousness / James Gilligan, M.D. -- Donald Trump, like Hitler, is a psychopath / Lance Dodes, M.D. -- Trump is a psychopath / Vince Greenwood, Ph.D., and Seth D. Norrholm, Ph.D. -- Is Trump in the throes of early dementia? - Vince Greenwood, Ph.D. -- The founders feared a Trump, so why could they not prevent one? / Drew Westen, Ph.D. -- What matters in the Trump candidacy / Ellyn Kaschak, Ph.D. -- Donald Trump's weaponization of reality / Larry Sandberg, M.D. -- On the origin and spread of Donald Trump's conspiracy claim that the Democrats stole the election / Hans Werbik, Ph.D. -- PART 2. EROS (Life impulse): Donny and Bibi / Avner Falk, Ph.D. -- Trump and Vance / Edwin B. Fisher, Ph.D. -- Gods and goddesses in the 2024 presidential election / Thomas Singer, M.D. -- Time and the truth's of Trump's traumatic impact / Betty Teng, L.C.S.W. -- Being a citizen therapist in the larger world / William J. Doherty, Ph.D. -- The prospect before us / Hattie Myers, Ph.D. -- Given his liabilities, why would we allow Donald Trump to lead us? / Richard Wood, Ph.D. -- The cult of Trump / Steven Hassan, Ph.D. -- Evangelicals do not see Trump for who he really is / Chris Thurman, Ph.D. -- How Trump attacks our capacity for compassion / Lorne Ladner, Ph.D. -- PART 3: Harpocrates (God of silence): The ethics of APA's Goldwater rule / Jerome Kroll, M.D., and Claire Pouncey, M.D., Ph.D. -- The Goldwater rule holds no water / Ravi Chandra, M.D. -- The challenge of writing about Donald Trump in 2017 / Henry J. Friedman, M.D. -- Eight years later / Howard H. Covitz, Ph.D. -- Seven years later / Leonard L. Glass, M.D., M.P.H. -- Psychiatric ethics and the Goldwater rule / Richard C. Friedman, M.D., and Jennifer I. Downey, M.D. -- A re-examination of the Goldwater rule / Jerrold M. Post, M.D., and Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M. Div. -- Paradox and political ends of the Goldwater rule / Denis J. O'Keefe, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. -- PART 4. Aesculapius (God of healing): Unbridled and extreme present hedonism / Philip Zimbardo, Ph.D., and Rosemary Sword -- The dangerous case of the American people / Prudence Gourguechon, M.D. -- A clinical case for the dangerousness of Donald J. Trump revisited / Diane Jhueck, L.M.H.C. -- Protecting the nuclear football / Nanette Gartrell, M.D., and Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D. -- The myth of Trump is a symptom of a deeper pathology / Ian Hughes, Ph.D.
Subjects: Biographies.; Case studies.; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Despotism; Heads of state; Presidents; Presidential candidates; Public administration; Political leadership; Presidents; Elections; Elections;
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