In 1895 not a single case of dementia praecox was reported in the United States. By 1912 tens of thousands of people with this diagnosis were locked up in asylums, hospitals, and jails. By 1927 it was fading away. This book explains how such a terrible disease could be discovered, affect so many lives, and then turn out to be something else.
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In 1895 not a single case of dementia praecox was reported in the United States. By 1912 tens of thousands of people with this diagnosis were locked up in asylums, hospitals, and jails. By 1927 it was fading away. This book explains how such a terrible disease could be discovered, affect so many lives, and then turn out to be something else.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 395 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2011012099 Type of material Book Personal name Noll, Richard, 1959-Main title American madness: the rise and fall of dementia praecox / Richard Noll. Published/Created Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011. Description 395 p.; 25 cm. ISBN 9780674047396 (alk. paper) (alk. paper) 0674047397 (alk. paper) LC classification RC514. N629 2011 Contents The world of the American alienist, 1896--Adolf Meyer brings dementia praecox to America--Emil Kraepelin--The American reception of dementia praecox and manic depressive insanity, 1896-1905--The lost biological psychiatry--The rise of the mind-twist men, 1903-1913--Bayard Taylor Holmes and radically rational treatments--The rise of schizophrenia in America, 1912-1927. LC Subjects Schizophrenia--United States--Case studies. Schizophrenia--Treatment--United States--History. Other Subjects Schizophrenia--history--United States. Schizophrenia--therapy--United States. Biological Psychiatry--history--United States. History, 20th Century--United States. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 616.89/800973 Geographic area code n-us---NLM class no. WM 11 AA1 National bib agency no. 101556765 015841479 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn708544392
