Joel Braslow
Biographic Data
| ID | 1458334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Braslow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Braslow |
| SIGNATURE | BRASLOW J |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLA Departments of Psychiatry and History, Los Angeles CA 90020 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
American Psychiatry after World War II (1944-1994) (review)
Over the last fifty years, American psychiatry has undergone enormous changes. To name the most obvious, these transformations have included the precipitous decline of state hospital patients (from more than 550,000 patients in the mid-1950s to fewer than 70,000 by the mid-1990s), the rise and fall of psychoanalysis, the meteoric ascendancy of psychopharmacology and neuroscience in general, and a fundamental transformation of who could be conside…
Care of the Psyche
Care of the Psyche is an ambitious and brilliant work, a sweeping history of how healers have understood and used psychological healing for those suffering physical or mental distress. Indeed, Stanley Jackson has staked out a vast terrain, encompassing religious, philosophical, medical, psychological, and psychiatric theories and practices from classical Greece and Rome to the contemporary period. While this is a daunting journey, Jackson is an e…
The Rise of Psychopharmacology and the Story of Cinp . Thomas A. Ban , David Healy , Edward Shorter
The psychopharmacologists II
Last resort
Mental Ills and Bodily Cures
Mental Ills and Bodily Cures depicts a time when psychiatric medicine went to lengths we now find extreme and perhaps even brutal ways to heal the mind by treating the body. From a treasure trove of California psychiatric hospital records, including many verbatim transcripts of patient interviews, Joel Braslow masterfully reconstructs the world of mental patients and their doctors in the first half of the twentieth century. Hydrotherapy, steriliz…
The history of mental symptoms
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Mental Ills and Bodily Cures
Mental Ills and Bodily Cures depicts a time when psychiatric medicine went to lengths we now find extreme and perhaps even brutal ways to heal the mind by treating the body. From a treasure trove of California psychiatric hospital records, including many verbatim transcripts of patient interviews, Joel Braslow masterfully reconstructs the world of mental patients and their doctors in the first half of the twentieth century. Hydrotherapy, steriliz…
The history of mental symptoms
Last resort
The Rise of Psychopharmacology and the Story of Cinp . Thomas A. Ban , David Healy , Edward Shorter
The psychopharmacologists II
Care of the Psyche
Care of the Psyche is an ambitious and brilliant work, a sweeping history of how healers have understood and used psychological healing for those suffering physical or mental distress. Indeed, Stanley Jackson has staked out a vast terrain, encompassing religious, philosophical, medical, psychological, and psychiatric theories and practices from classical Greece and Rome to the contemporary period. While this is a daunting journey, Jackson is an e…
American Psychiatry after World War II (1944-1994) (review)
Over the last fifty years, American psychiatry has undergone enormous changes. To name the most obvious, these transformations have included the precipitous decline of state hospital patients (from more than 550,000 patients in the mid-1950s to fewer than 70,000 by the mid-1990s), the rise and fall of psychoanalysis, the meteoric ascendancy of psychopharmacology and neuroscience in general, and a fundamental transformation of who could be conside…
Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Citation (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Library science (3 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (2 works) · Chemical synthesis and alkaloids (2 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (2 works)