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Care and Treatment of the Mentally Ill in North Wales, 1800-2000
Pamela Michael is Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Wales, Bangor. She has published widely on the social and cultural history of insanity, with particular…
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Cracked
Dr. Drew Pinsky is best known as the cohost of the long-running radio advice program Loveline. But his workday is spent at a major Southern California clinic, treating the severest…
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Doctors of Deception
Mechanisms and standards exist to safeguard the health and welfare of the patient, but for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)—used to treat depression and other mental illnesses—such approval methods have failed. Prescribed…
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Going Sane
Being sane has long been defined simply as that bland and nebulous state of not being mentally ill. While writings on madness fill entire libraries, until now no one has…
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