Asylum, commitment, and psychiatric treatment in historical context

This thesis was a sociological, historically informed, study of the interactions between three key variables over a two hundred year period. These variables were the changing nature of asylum- based care of the mentally ill, the epistemological and professional dominance of the psychiatric pr...

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Main Author: Libbiter, Andrew Paul
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5900