Mind-forg'd Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the RegencyAthlone Press, 1987 - 412 pages This book is an exploration of the attitudes towards, and treatments for, madness in the age before the mass asylum and the emergence of the psychiatric profession. |
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Page 348
... In Search of Stability ; Murphy , ' The Advent of Guilt Feelings as a Common Depre- ssive Symptom ' ; Spacks , Imagining a Self , 40 f .; Ober , ' Madness and Poetry ' ; Quinlan , ' Memoir of William Cowper ' ; Ryskamp , William Cowper ...
... In Search of Stability ; Murphy , ' The Advent of Guilt Feelings as a Common Depre- ssive Symptom ' ; Spacks , Imagining a Self , 40 f .; Ober , ' Madness and Poetry ' ; Quinlan , ' Memoir of William Cowper ' ; Ryskamp , William Cowper ...
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... Shepherd ( eds ) , The Anatomy of Madness , 2 vols ( London , Tavis- tock , 1985 ) , ii , 73-85 E. Goffman Asylums ( New York , Anchor Books , 1961 ) M. Golden , In Search of Stability : the Poetry 364 Mind Forg'd Manacles.
... Shepherd ( eds ) , The Anatomy of Madness , 2 vols ( London , Tavis- tock , 1985 ) , ii , 73-85 E. Goffman Asylums ( New York , Anchor Books , 1961 ) M. Golden , In Search of Stability : the Poetry 364 Mind Forg'd Manacles.
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... In Search of Stability : the Poetry of William Cowper ( New Haven , Yale University Press , 1969 ) The Self Observed ( Baltimore , Johns Hopkins University Press , 1972 ) J. Goldstein , " Moral Contagion ” . A Professional Ideology of ...
... In Search of Stability : the Poetry of William Cowper ( New Haven , Yale University Press , 1969 ) The Self Observed ( Baltimore , Johns Hopkins University Press , 1972 ) J. Goldstein , " Moral Contagion ” . A Professional Ideology of ...
Contents
Orientations | 1 |
Cultures of Madness | 33 |
Confinement and its Rationales | 110 |
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