History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology With an Epilogue on Psychiatry and the Mind-Body Relation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wallace, Edwin R. (Editor), Gach, John (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Psychiatry.; Psychoanalysis.; Medicine > History.; Social sciences.; Psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; History of Psychology.; Social Sciences, general.; History of Medicine.

The first English-language comprehensive reference on the history of psychiatry since 1966. The Romans knew that Nero was insane. Shakespeare’s Macbeth asked his doctor to treat "a mind diseased." The people of the European Enlightenment era pondered whether the asylum inmates were mad or...