Joel T Braslow
Biographic Data
| ID | 929710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel T Braslow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel T |
| FAMILY NAME | Braslow |
| SIGNATURE | BRASLOW J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6830-2991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Barriers and delays to healthcare at time of death
People experiencing homelessness experience many barriers and delays to care which may be linked to untimely deaths. This study highlights the importance of healthcare and community organizations serving PEH to foster social cohesion, understand reasons for PEH's early termination and/or non-acceptance of care, and adopt equity-oriented care approaches, which aim to improve individuals' ability to engage in outpatient services and treatment
Heather Murray, Asylum Ways of Seeing
In Asylum Ways of Seeing, Heather Murray promises a ‘book about people with mental illnesses and distress and those in their orbits who cared for and observed them’ (p. 1). In so doing, Murray charts an exuberantly wide terrain for what she has dubbed ‘patient cultures’, using an impressive range of sources: patient case files (from public and private hospitals), patient and family letters, medical literature to memoirs, novels and Hollywood film…
Psychosis Without Meaning
Over the last fifty years, American psychiatrists have embraced psychotropic drugs as their primary treatment intervention. This has especially been the case in their treatment of patients suffering from psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. This focus has led to an increasing disregard for patients’ subjective lived-experiences, life histories, and social contexts. This transformation of American psychiatry occurred abruptly beginning in th…
How Pharmaceuticals Mask Health and Social Inequity
Medications, like all interventions, shape the ways in which physicians see disease, provide care, define successful outcomes, and organize health care systems. Pharmaceuticals make symptoms and biological drug targets more visible while rendering individuals and their social suffering invisible, thereby focusing our profession on the intracellular effects of an unequal society. This article uses psychopharmacology as a probe to trace a more gene…
Integrating Mental Health in Safety-net Primary Care
BACKGROUND: Beginning in 2010, Los Angeles County Departments of Health Services and Mental Health collaborated to increase access to effective mental health care. The Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP) embedded behavioral health specialists in primary care clinics to deliver brief, problem-focused treatments, and psychiatric consultation support for primary care-prescribed psychotropic medications. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to compare primary…
Reconsidering Systems-Based Practice
Health inequities stem from systematic, pervasive social and structural forces. These forces marginalize populations and create the circumstances that disadvantage these groups, as reflected in differences in outcomes like life expectancy and infant mortality and in inequitable access to and delivery of health care resources. To help eradicate these inequities, physicians must understand racism, sexism, oppression, historical marginalization, pow…
Client Outreach in Los Angeles County’s Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program
Outreach, coupled with the strategic used of potential court involvement, can lead to voluntary enrollment of treatment-refusing individuals with many, often severe, barriers to engaging in outpatient treatment
Using Electronic Health Records to Enhance a Peer Health Navigator Intervention
The Making of Contemporary American Psychiatry, Part 1
This article, the 1st in a 2-part series, uses patient records from California's Stockton State Hospital to unearth the midcentury roots of contemporary American psychiatry. These patient records allow the authors to examine 2 transformations: the post-World War II expansion of psychiatry to include the diagnosis and treatment not only of psychotic patients but also of nonpsychotic patients suffering from problems of everyday living, and the 1950…
The making of contemporary American psychiatry, part 2
In this article, the 2nd in a 2-part series, the authors use patient records from California's Stockton State Hospital to explore the changing role of gender norms and other cultural values in the care of psychiatric patients. The authors show that cultural values are always imbedded in psychiatric practice and that their role in that practice depends on the patients, treatments, and therapeutic rationales present in a given therapeutic encounter…
The Creation of Psychopharmacology (review)
David Healy. The Creation of Psychopharmacology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. 469 pp. $39.95 (0-674-00619-4)
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…
Medicating Schizophrenia
Therapeutics and the History of Psychiatry
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 74, Number 4, Winter 2000
The Rise of Psychopharmacology and the Story of Cinp . Thomas A. Ban , David Healy , Edward Shorter
The psychopharmacologists II
The Antidepressant Era (review)
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1999
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
The Influence of a Biological Therapy on Physicians' Narratives and Interrogations
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 70, Number 4, Winter 1996
In the Name of Therapeutics
Journal Article In the Name of Therapeutics: The Practice of Sterilization in a California State Hospital Get access JOEL T. BRASLOW JOEL T. BRASLOW Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 51, Issue 1, January 1996, Pages 29–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/51.1.29 Published: 01 January 1996
The making of contemporary American psychiatry, part 2
In this article, the 2nd in a 2-part series, the authors use patient records from California's Stockton State Hospital to explore the changing role of gender norms and other cultural values in the care of psychiatric patients. The authors show that cultural values are always imbedded in psychiatric practice and that their role in that practice depends on the patients, treatments, and therapeutic rationales present in a given therapeutic encounter…
In the Name of Therapeutics
Journal Article In the Name of Therapeutics: The Practice of Sterilization in a California State Hospital Get access JOEL T. BRASLOW JOEL T. BRASLOW Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 51, Issue 1, January 1996, Pages 29–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/51.1.29 Published: 01 January 1996
The Making of Contemporary American Psychiatry, Part 1
This article, the 1st in a 2-part series, uses patient records from California's Stockton State Hospital to unearth the midcentury roots of contemporary American psychiatry. These patient records allow the authors to examine 2 transformations: the post-World War II expansion of psychiatry to include the diagnosis and treatment not only of psychotic patients but also of nonpsychotic patients suffering from problems of everyday living, and the 1950…
Client Outreach in Los Angeles County’s Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program
Outreach, coupled with the strategic used of potential court involvement, can lead to voluntary enrollment of treatment-refusing individuals with many, often severe, barriers to engaging in outpatient treatment
The Influence of a Biological Therapy on Physicians' Narratives and Interrogations
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 70, Number 4, Winter 1996
In the Name of Therapeutics
Journal Article In the Name of Therapeutics: The Practice of Sterilization in a California State Hospital Get access JOEL T. BRASLOW JOEL T. BRASLOW Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 51, Issue 1, January 1996, Pages 29–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/51.1.29 Published: 01 January 1996
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
The Antidepressant Era (review)
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1999
Last resort
Medicating Schizophrenia
Therapeutics and the History of Psychiatry
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 74, Number 4, Winter 2000
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…
The Creation of Psychopharmacology (review)
David Healy. The Creation of Psychopharmacology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. 469 pp. $39.95 (0-674-00619-4)
The Making of Contemporary American Psychiatry, Part 1
This article, the 1st in a 2-part series, uses patient records from California's Stockton State Hospital to unearth the midcentury roots of contemporary American psychiatry. These patient records allow the authors to examine 2 transformations: the post-World War II expansion of psychiatry to include the diagnosis and treatment not only of psychotic patients but also of nonpsychotic patients suffering from problems of everyday living, and the 1950…
The making of contemporary American psychiatry, part 2
In this article, the 2nd in a 2-part series, the authors use patient records from California's Stockton State Hospital to explore the changing role of gender norms and other cultural values in the care of psychiatric patients. The authors show that cultural values are always imbedded in psychiatric practice and that their role in that practice depends on the patients, treatments, and therapeutic rationales present in a given therapeutic encounter…
Using Electronic Health Records to Enhance a Peer Health Navigator Intervention
Reconsidering Systems-Based Practice
Health inequities stem from systematic, pervasive social and structural forces. These forces marginalize populations and create the circumstances that disadvantage these groups, as reflected in differences in outcomes like life expectancy and infant mortality and in inequitable access to and delivery of health care resources. To help eradicate these inequities, physicians must understand racism, sexism, oppression, historical marginalization, pow…
Client Outreach in Los Angeles County’s Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program
Outreach, coupled with the strategic used of potential court involvement, can lead to voluntary enrollment of treatment-refusing individuals with many, often severe, barriers to engaging in outpatient treatment
Psychosis Without Meaning
Over the last fifty years, American psychiatrists have embraced psychotropic drugs as their primary treatment intervention. This has especially been the case in their treatment of patients suffering from psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. This focus has led to an increasing disregard for patients’ subjective lived-experiences, life histories, and social contexts. This transformation of American psychiatry occurred abruptly beginning in th…
How Pharmaceuticals Mask Health and Social Inequity
Medications, like all interventions, shape the ways in which physicians see disease, provide care, define successful outcomes, and organize health care systems. Pharmaceuticals make symptoms and biological drug targets more visible while rendering individuals and their social suffering invisible, thereby focusing our profession on the intracellular effects of an unequal society. This article uses psychopharmacology as a probe to trace a more gene…
Integrating Mental Health in Safety-net Primary Care
BACKGROUND: Beginning in 2010, Los Angeles County Departments of Health Services and Mental Health collaborated to increase access to effective mental health care. The Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP) embedded behavioral health specialists in primary care clinics to deliver brief, problem-focused treatments, and psychiatric consultation support for primary care-prescribed psychotropic medications. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to compare primary…
Heather Murray, Asylum Ways of Seeing
In Asylum Ways of Seeing, Heather Murray promises a ‘book about people with mental illnesses and distress and those in their orbits who cared for and observed them’ (p. 1). In so doing, Murray charts an exuberantly wide terrain for what she has dubbed ‘patient cultures’, using an impressive range of sources: patient case files (from public and private hospitals), patient and family letters, medical literature to memoirs, novels and Hollywood film…
Barriers and delays to healthcare at time of death
People experiencing homelessness experience many barriers and delays to care which may be linked to untimely deaths. This study highlights the importance of healthcare and community organizations serving PEH to foster social cohesion, understand reasons for PEH's early termination and/or non-acceptance of care, and adopt equity-oriented care approaches, which aim to improve individuals' ability to engage in outpatient services and treatment
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