Healing the Mind by Michael H Stone
This book starts with the Greeks 2,500 years ago and ends with the present of DSM-IV. The organization is chronological and by country or groups of countries until the twentieth century, when the exponential growth of the healing sciences results in too much material from too many countries to merit such organization. For each century and era, Dr. Stone not only points out major trends, movements, and contributing forces that set the tone of the time, but also describes the positions and publications of influential individuals and shares interesting and odd tidbits on the treatment of the mentally ill. The history of psychiatry in the twentieth century is arranged by decade and major fields, including diagnosis and epidemiology, psychoanalysis, general and hospital psychiatry, personality disorders, biological psychiatry, child psychiatry, forensics, and philosophy as it relates to the mind. In the section on 1980 to 1995, the reader will find a comprehensive overview of the current practice of psychiatry. Dr. Stone begins with a look at the role of religion in healing the mind and ends with some tentative predictions about the practice of psychiatry in the twenty-first century.
"This is a terrific book for psychiatrists at all stages of their careers as well as other professionals and lay readers interested in the historical antecedents of modern psychiatric practice" -- Allan Tasman, M.D.
Stone, MD, is a clinical psychiatry professor at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He has written twelve books, the most recent of which being Personality Disorders: Treatable and Untreatable, as well as over 200 professional papers and book chapters. He has also appeared in the New York Times, Psychology Today, the Christian Science Monitor, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, the London Times, the BBAC, and Newsday, among other publications.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393702224 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393702227 |
| Title | Healing the Mind |
| Author | Michael H Stone |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 1997-08-13 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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