mental disorders

A history of mental illness and its treatment in the United States, discussing what madness is, exploring what it is like to be mad, examining madness in the colonial era, chronicling the rise and fall of asylums, looking at the experiences of mad patients in asylums, and detailing the quest to find a therapeutic intervention that will restore sanity.

Explores the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment from antiquity to the present day.

Explores the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment from antiquity to the present day.

Discusses the treatment of the mentally ill through the ages.

Provides diagnostic criteria for and descriptions of a range of mental disorders, grouped in seventeen categories, and features instructions concerning the use of the manual, a systematic listing of official codes and categories, and appendixes.