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Snake Pits, Talking Cures, & Magic Bullets: A History of Mental Illness

by Deborah Kent

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A straightforward, well-researched and compelling, yet thoroughly depressing account of Western civilization's attempts to deal with madness throughout history. If there is any moral to this story, it's that none of the treatments really work all that well, and we still have a long way to go towards curing mental illness and ending the stigma associated with it. (

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meggyweg | Mar 6, 2009 |

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616.89Technology › Medicine & health › Diseases › Diseases of nervous system and mental disorders › Mental disorders

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RC438.K46Medicine › Internal medicine › Internal medicine › Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry › Psychiatry

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