Hearing voices : the history of psychiatry in Ireland /
This monumental work by one of Ireland's leading clinical psychiatrists encompasses every psychiatric development, from the Middle Ages to the present day, including an examination of the far-reaching social and political effects. From the "Glenn of Lunatics," said to cure mental illn...
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Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland :
Irish Academic Press,
2016
Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland : 2016 |
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Table of Contents:
- The birth of psychiatry in Ireland
- The nineteenth century: growth of the asylums
- Psychiatry and society in the 1800s
- Early-twentieth-century psychiatry
- Reformation and renewal in the 1900s
- The twentieth century: decline of the institutions
- The twenty-first century: new policy, new law
- The future of psychiatry in Ireland