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Psychiatry

Disalienation Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France

Robcis Camille

ISBN: PB: 9780226777740, ISBN: HB: 9780226777603, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. The Vichy Regime's "soft extermination" let patients die of cold, starvation, or lack of care. But in Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, a small village in central France, one p...

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Psychology

Mental Traveler A Father, a Son, and a Journey through Schizophrenia

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: HB: 9780226695938, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 18 halftones

How does a parent make sense of a child's severe mental illness? How does a father meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking to overcome the stigma of madness and the limits of psychiatry? W. J. T. Mitchell...

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Psychiatry

On the Heels of Ignorance Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing

Whooley Owen

ISBN: PB: 9780226616384, ISBN: HB: 9780226616247, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knots, often invoking the latest medical science in doing so. But, as Owen Whooley's sweeping new book tell us, the h...

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Genetics

Model Behavior Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders

Nelson Nicole C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226546087, ISBN: HB: 9780226545929, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Mice are used as model organisms across a wide range of fields in science today – but it is far from obvious how studying a mouse in a maze can help us understand human problems like alcoholism or anxiety. How do scientists convince funders, fellow s...

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Psychiatry

Mental Health Services for Deaf People Treatment Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges

Estrada Aranda Benito, Sleeboom-van Raaij Ines

ISBN: HB: 9781563686542, Gallaudet University Press, December 2015
280 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 tables, 2 figures

The World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness first met at Gallaudet University in October 1998, and it has convened five more times in the succeeding years. This volume collects the very best research presented at the Fifth World Congress, which...

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Psychiatry

On Hysteria The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820

Arnaud Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780226275543, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

These days, hysteria is known as a discredited diagnosis that was used to group and pathologize a wide range of conditions and behaviors in women. But for a long time, it was seen as a legitimate category of medical problem – and one that, originally...

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Psychiatry

Ethics in Mental Health and Deafness

Gutman Virginia

ISBN: PB: 9781563685873, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
224 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

In the mental health field, ethical guidelines are strictly enforced to ensure healthy, appropriate, effective, and productive counselor-client relationships. This volume explores ethical issues specific to working with deaf clients, which include ma...

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