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The terminal man [large print] / by Crichton, Michael,1942-2008.(CARDINAL)125108;
Subjects: Large print books.; Psychological fiction.; Science fiction.; Psychosurgery; Paranoia;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 5
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The Andromeda Strain & The Terminal Man / by Crichton, Michael,1942-2008.(CARDINAL)125108;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Science fiction.; Psychosurgery; Paranoia;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Lobotomy : resort to the knife / by Shutts, David.;
Bibliography: pages 261-267.
Subjects: Frontal lobotomy; Psychosurgery;
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Great and desperate cures : the rise and decline of psychosurgery and other radical treatments for mental illness / by Valenstein, Elliot S.(CARDINAL)149754;
Bibliography: pages 298-328.
Subjects: Psychosurgery; Frontal lobotomy; Mental illness;
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My lobotomy / by Dully, Howard,1948-(CARDINAL)489502; Fleming, Charles.(CARDINAL)745011;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Dully, Howard, 1948-; Frontal lobotomy; Psychosurgery;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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My lobotomy : a memoir / by Dully, Howard,1948-(CARDINAL)489502; Fleming, Charles.(CARDINAL)745011;
June -- Lou -- 762 Edgewood -- Trouble -- Dr. Freeman -- Dully, Howard (F: Rodney L.) -- My lobotomy -- Big enough and ugly enough -- Asylum -- Rancho Linda -- Agnews. Again -- Homeless -- Barbara -- Journey -- Archives -- Broadcast -- One last word --Afterword.At twelve, Howard Dully was guilty of the same crimes as other boys his age: he was moody, messy, rambunctious, and perpetually at odds with his parents. Yet somehow, this normal boy became one of the youngest people on whom Dr. Walter Freeman performed his barbaric transorbital--or ice pick--lobotomy. Abandoned by his family within a year of the surgery, Howard spent his teen years in mental institutions, his twenties in jail, and his thirties in a bottle. It wasn't until his forties that Howard began to pull his life together. But he stil struggled with one question: Why? Through his research, Howard met other lobotomy patients and their families talked with one of Freeman's sons about his father's controversial life's work, and confronted his own father about his complicity. And, in the doctor's files, he finally came face to face with the truth. -- From publisher description; Crown Publishers, 2007.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Dully, Howard, 1948-; Psychosurgery; Frontal lobotomy;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 9
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Rosemary [sound recording] : the hidden Kennedy daughter / by Larson, Kate Clifford,author.; Dunne, Bernadette,narrator.; Blackstone Audio, Inc.(CARDINAL)346395;
Read by Bernadette Dunne.The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation.
Subjects: Kennedy, Rosemary, 1918-2005.; Kennedy family.; People with mental disabilities; Psychosurgery; Mental retardation;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Gray matters : a biography of brain surgery / by Schwartz, Theodore H.,author.(CARDINAL)894273;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-476) and index.The Myth -- The Training -- Penetrating Head Trauma -- Head-On Collisions -- Sports Neurosurgery -- Weighing the Risks -- Where to Begin? -- The Hardest Part is Knowing When to Stop -- Journey to the Center of the Brain -- A Timebomb in the Brain -- Too Close for Comfort -- Psychosurgery or Psycho Surgeon? -- Luck Favors the Prepared Mind -- What is it Like to be a Brain? -- We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live -- The Terminal Man."A popular biography of brain surgery told by one of its preeminent practitioners"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Brain; Nervous system;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 12
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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;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Madness in the streets : how psychiatry and the law abandoned the mentally ill / by Isaac, Rael Jean.(CARDINAL)153454; Armat, Virginia C.(CARDINAL)202642;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-414) and index.Introduction: The shame of the streets -- Part I: Anti-psychiatry: birth of a social delusion. The origins of anti-psychiatry ; Mental illness as label: the academy joins anti-psychiatry -- Part II: The vision of community care. Community mental health centers: the dream ; Community mental health centers: the reality -- Part III: The law becomes deranged. The rise of the mental health bar ; Hospitalization under attack: the major legal cases ; From the right to treatment to the right to refuse treatment -- Part IV: The war against treatment. The rise of the ex-patient movement ; Psychosurgery: the first domino ; Electroconvulsive therapy: the second domino ; Psychoactive drugs: the last domino -- Part V: Families as mental institutions. The right to be crazy ; The specter of violence -- Part VI: The mentally ill in the community. Winging it with pilot programs in the community ; Community services are not enough -- Conclusion: Forging a new bipartisan consensus.In the 1960's Mental Hospitals were seen as oppressing people who were "not really ill, just different." As a result these people have gone without needed treatment and make up a large portion of the homeless.Simply blaming the process of "deinstitutionalization" has been a convenient shorthand to explain away the tragedy of how thousands of mentally ill people were committed to life on the streets. Such a one-dimensional view fails, however, to deal with the deep and powerful cultural and political forces that caused deinstitutionalization and continue to keep us from confronting and ending this disgrace to our society. Madness in the Streets is the first book to identify the astounding social and political delusions which justified ignoring the needs of the mentally ill. In the 1960s, a national fashion for casting off all forms of what was perceived as "oppression" found its perfect target in the psychiatric establishment. Mental illness did not exist, its critics claimed: it was only a "label" for people perceived as "different." Such illness as there was could be treated in the community. The psychiatric establishment accepted these misguided and untested notions, and now our society offers no real response to people in need of help. During the same period, the national enthusiasm for a civil rights approach to all social problems produced a body of case law which has made it impossible to give medical help to anyone without their consent, no matter how desperately their families and others know it is needed to protect them--and others. Efforts to "free" the mentally ill received the full support of the courts, where judges ruled repeatedly that the patient's "rights" took precedence over all other considerations. In effect, the right to refuse treatment replaced the right to receive treatment. A short walk through any American community today reveals the utter failure of these policies. Our sidewalks and parks have become open-air mental wards--but without treatment for their inmates. It is too easy to call this population "homeless," for the hard truth is that affordable housing, even if available, does not treat mental illness. Isaac and Armat's devastating account shows compellingly that we must reverse thirty years of pretending that mental illness does not exist if this shame of our society is to be ended. --Adapted from dust jacket.
Subjects: Mentally ill; Ex-mental patients; Community mental health services;
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