Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
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This cluster of papers explores the historical development of psychiatry and mental health, covering topics such as psychopharmacology, colonial psychiatry, patient experience, deinstitutionalization, and social psychiatry. It delves into the evolution of psychiatric treatment, the impact of historical events on mental health care, and the changing perceptions of mental illness over time.
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history of psychiatry; psychiatric hospitals; insanity; asylum; psychiatry; lunatic asylums; psychiatric reform; mental health history; mental hygiene; social psychiatry; 19th-century psychiatry; military psychiatry; institutional care of the mentally ill; Kraepelin; psychosurgery; history of mental illness; institutional care of the insane; antipsychiatry; history of madness; institutionalization of the mentally ill; clinical psychiatry; general paresis; state hospitals; colonial psychiatry; moral treatment
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Morton address: 38355399202078932 · morton4x16-v1
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