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Description:The last 20 years have seen a growth in interest in the history of psychiatry. Emphasis has been given to social topics, moral treatment and psychiatry as a profession, but little work has been produced on the internal history of individual diseases and their medico-social context. This book aims to redress this imbalance by exploring the history of significant psychiatric disorders from both the clinical and socio-historical perspective. It is divided in three sections covering neuropsychiatric disorders such as dementia, stroke and Parkinson's disease; functional psychoses such as schizophrenia and depression; and neuroses and personality. The text is designed as a standard reference work on the subject for practitioners and trainees within medicine, and psychiatry, historians and social scientists. Dr Porter has also published "Mind-Forg'd Manacles".We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A History of Clinical Psychiatry: The Origin and History of Psychiatric Disorders. To get started finding A History of Clinical Psychiatry: The Origin and History of Psychiatric Disorders, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The last 20 years have seen a growth in interest in the history of psychiatry. Emphasis has been given to social topics, moral treatment and psychiatry as a profession, but little work has been produced on the internal history of individual diseases and their medico-social context. This book aims to redress this imbalance by exploring the history of significant psychiatric disorders from both the clinical and socio-historical perspective. It is divided in three sections covering neuropsychiatric disorders such as dementia, stroke and Parkinson's disease; functional psychoses such as schizophrenia and depression; and neuroses and personality. The text is designed as a standard reference work on the subject for practitioners and trainees within medicine, and psychiatry, historians and social scientists. Dr Porter has also published "Mind-Forg'd Manacles".We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A History of Clinical Psychiatry: The Origin and History of Psychiatric Disorders. To get started finding A History of Clinical Psychiatry: The Origin and History of Psychiatric Disorders, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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A History of Clinical Psychiatry: The Origin and History of Psychiatric Disorders

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