The Sane Asylum

Author : Susan Schellenberg
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554581303
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Committed to the Sane Asylum written by Susan Schellenberg and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing, artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, and psychologist Rosemary Barnes relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning the contributions and limitations of conventional mental health care and their collaborative search for alternatives such as art therapy. Patient and doctor each describe personal decisions about the mental health system and the creative life possibilities that emerged when mind, body, and spirit were committed to well-being and healing. Interwoven patient/doctor narratives explain conventional care, highlight critical steps in healing, and explore varied perspectives through conversations with experts in psychiatry, feminist approaches, art, storytelling, and business. The book also includes reproductions of Susan’s mental health records and dream paintings. This book will be important for consumers of mental health care wishing to understand the conventional system and develop the best quality of life. Rich personal detail, critical perspective, clinical records, and art reproductions make the book engaging for a general audience and stimulating as a teaching resource in nursing, social work, psychology, psychiatry, and art therapy.

Author : Jerry M. Kantor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1644114097
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sane Asylums written by Jerry M. Kantor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Examines the success of homeopathic psychiatric asylums in the United States from the 1870s until 1920 • Focuses on New York’s Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital for the Insane, which had a treatment regime with thousands of successful outcomes • Details a homeopathic blueprint for treating mental disorders based on Talcott’s methods, including nutrition and side-effect-free homeopathic prescriptions In the late 1800s and early 1900s, homeopathy was popular across all classes of society. In the United States, there were more than 100 homeopathic hospitals, more than 1,000 homeopathic pharmacies, and 22 homeopathic medical schools. In particular, homeopathic psychiatry flourished from the 1870s to the 1930s, with thousands of documented successful outcomes in treating mental illness. Revealing the astonishing but suppressed history of homeopathic psychiatry, Jerry M. Kantor examines the success of homeopathic psychiatric asylums in America from the post–Civil War era until 1920, including how the madness of Mary Todd Lincoln was effectively treated with homeopathy at a “sane” asylum in Illinois. He focuses in particular on New York’s Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital, where superintendent Selden Talcott oversaw a compassionate and holistic treatment regime that married Thomas Kirkbride’s moral treatment principles to homeopathy. Kantor reveals how homeopathy was pushed aside by pharmaceuticals, which often caused more harm than good, as well as how the current critical attitude toward homeopathy has distorted the historical record. Offering a vision of mental health care for the future predicated on a model that flourished for half a century, Kantor shows how we can improve the care and treatment of the mentally ill and stop the exponential growth of terminal mental disorder diagnoses that are rampant today.

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595311717
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sane Asylum written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Penelope Griber
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557346746
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sane Asylum Chronicles written by Penelope Griber and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wanda Waffle is a single mother of twins. In order to get any help from her ex-husband, she would first have to obtain an advanced degree in crypto zoology. In case you don't know what that is, it is the study of creatures that do not exist, like Big Foot, Sasquatch, the Abominable Snowman, the Yeti, the Chupacabra, the Loch Ness Monster, the Thunder Bird, the Jersey Devil, and Willie Waffle, her fugitive ex-husband who, much like D. B. Cooper, might as well not exist because he couldn't be found. Wanting to make a better life for her children, she moves from the East Village in Manhattan to the small Victorian coastal town named Big Water, where during a period of unemployment in the 1970's she starts to write a book out of sheer desperation. Thirty years later she finds the old manuscript in a trunk. It was written at a time of rampant unemployment, a falling dollar, and high gas prices. It sounded just like today!

Author : Susan Schellenberg
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554587808
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Committed to the Sane Asylum written by Susan Schellenberg and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing, artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, and psychologist Rosemary Barnes relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning the contributions and limitations of conventional mental health care and their collaborative search for alternatives such as art therapy. Patient and doctor each describe personal decisions about the mental health system and the creative life possibilities that emerged when mind, body, and spirit were committed to well-being and healing. Interwoven patient/doctor narratives explain conventional care, highlight critical steps in healing, and explore varied perspectives through conversations with experts in psychiatry, feminist approaches, art, storytelling, and business. The book also includes reproductions of Susan’s mental health records and dream paintings. This book will be important for consumers of mental health care wishing to understand the conventional system and develop the best quality of life. Rich personal detail, critical perspective, clinical records, and art reproductions make the book engaging for a general audience and stimulating as a teaching resource in nursing, social work, psychology, psychiatry, and art therapy.

Author : Charles Hampden-Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sane Asylum written by Charles Hampden-Turner and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Allison Whittenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956952554
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sane Asylum written by Allison Whittenberg and published by . This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter G. Cranford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780557026821
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book But for the Grace of God written by Peter G. Cranford and published by . This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly yet absorbing history of one of the best, worst, and largest insane asylums in the world.

Author : Herman Charles Merivale
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum written by Herman Charles Merivale and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an enlightening memoir by Herman Merivale, where he narrated his time in one of England's countryside asylums in the 1860s. He was suffering from depression and was taken into care for treatment. Throughout the work, Merivale attacked over-treatment and suggested that being in the asylum during that period could drive someone into insanity even if they were completely normal.

Author : Margaret Starr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sane Or Insane? written by Margaret Starr and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: