1008 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1985 by The Tavistock Press, this three-volume set covers the history of British and continental European madness and psychiatry from the Renaissance through to Freud. The long time-span covered affords the reader views of the changing understanding of madness and the resultant policies towards it in the light of long-term developments such as secularization and... Read more
VOLUME I People and Ideas, VOLUME II Institutions and Society, VOLUME III The Asylum and its Psychiatry

Biography

W.F. Bynum, Roy Porter, Michael Shepherd