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From Madness to Mental Health: Psychiatric Disorder and Its Treatment in Western Civilization

Greg Eghigian (editor) · 2009 · Rutgers University Press

An edited sourcebook tracing changing understandings and treatments of mental disorder in Western civilization. It brings together religious writings, clinical cases, memoirs, lectures, institutional records, legal and medical texts, and visual sources from antiquity to the modern era.

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https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/from-madness-to-mental-health/9780813578972

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