Ministering to Minds Diseased: A History of Psychiatric Treatment focuses on the advancements of methodologies, approaches, and techniques in the practice of psychiatry.
The book first offers information on early physical treatments, epilepsy and its treatment, and later physical treatments. Discussions focus on hydrotherapy, bloodletting and transfusion, sleep, shock, and electrical treatments, fever therapy, and insulin and convulsion treatments. The manuscript then ponders on medicinal treatment, including narcotics, neuroleptic and antidepressant drugs, chemistry and the development of psychopharmacology, and lithium, vitamin, and hormone treatments.
The text takes a look at the expansion of psychotherapy, behavior therapy, and evolution of mental hospitals. Topics include action techniques in psychotherapy, meditation, music therapy, early hospitals, madhouses, conditions, abuses, and reforms in hospitals, and retreat into custodialism. The manuscript then examines the development of a mental health service, including work therapy, treatment in the community, and mental nursing.
The publication is a dependable source material for mental health experts and readers interested in psychiatric treatment.
Inhalt
Preface
1 Introduction
I Somatic Treatments
2 The Early Physical Treatments
Sleep
Hydrotherapy
Bloodletting and Blood Transfusion
Shock Treatment
Electrical Treatment
3 Epilepsy and its Treatment
4 The Later Physical Treatments
Fever Therapy
Insulin Treatment
Convulsion Treatment
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Surgery
5 Medicinal Treatment
The Herbals and the Herbalists
The Narcotics
Chemistry and the Development of Psychopharmacology
The Neuroleptic Drugs
The Antidepressant Drugs
The Anxiolytic Drugs
Lithium Treatment
Treatment with Vitamins
Treatment with Hormones
II The Psychotherapies
6 The Beginnings
Mesmerism
Hypnotism
Psychoanalysis
Analytical Psychology
Individual Psychology
7 The Expansion of Psychotherapy
The Later History of Psychoanalysis
Psychotherapy Progresses
Psychotherapy in the Second World War
The Therapeutic Community
Action Techniques in Psychotherapy
Music Therapy
Meditation
8 Behavior Therapy
III Environmental and Social Treatment
9 The Evolution of the Mental Hospital
The Early Hospitals
The Madhouses
The Hospitals in the Eighteenth Century
Nineteenth Century Advances
Restraint and Non-Restraint
The Retreat into Custodialism
10 The Development of a Mental Health Service
The Advance is Resumed
Work Therapy
Treatment in the Community
Mental Nursing
11 Conclusions
Biographical and Historical Notes
Bibliography
Index