This exciting new book explores the history of major mental disorders by looking at a wide range of historical and contemporary figures that have experienced mental illness. It discusses changing perceptions of mental illness and the treatments used at different historical periods from antiquity to the present day via the biographical sketches.
ISBN: | 9781137603043 |
Publication date: | 16th August 2019 |
Author: | Paul (University of Salford, Manchester) Fallon |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 168 pages |
Genres: |
Psychiatry History of medicine Collected biographies |