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PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-100822953242
ISBN-139780822953241
eBay Product ID (ePID)590893
Product Key Features
Number of Pages232 Pages
Publication NameMind That Found Itself
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGeneral, Psychiatry / General
Publication Year1981
FeaturesReprint
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, Medical
AuthorClifford W. Beers
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight10.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number5
LCCN80-005256
TitleLeadingA
Reviews"Fascinating - as a record of mental illness told by the patient, as a story of triumph over fear and sickness, and as the autobiography of a fiesty and independent young man. An unforgettable book." --Kliatt, Fascinating - as a record of mental illness told by the patient, as a story of triumph over fear and sickness, and as the autobiography of a fiesty and independent young man. An unforgettable book." —Kliatt, "Fascinating - as a record of mental illness told by the patient, as a story of triumph over fear and sickness, and as the autobiography of a fiesty and independent young man. An unforgettable book." --Kliatt, Fascinating - as a record of mental illness told by the patient, as a story of triumph over fear and sickness, and as the autobiography of a fiesty and independent young man. An unforgettable book.
Dewey Decimal362.2/092/4
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisAt once a classic account of the ravages of mental illness and a major American autobiography, A Mind That Found Itself tells the story of a young man who is gradually enveloped by a psychosis. His well-meaning family commits him to a series of mental hospitals, but he is brutalized by the treatment, and his moments of fleeting sanity become fewer and fewer. His ultimate recovery is a triumph of the human spirit. The publication of A Mind That Found Itself did for the American mental health movement what Thomas Paine s Common Sense did for the American Revolution. Moreover, it grips the imagination of readers not because it is a document of social reform but because it is a superb narrative. As the distinguished psychiatrist and writer Robert Coles has noted, the book provides the virtues of clinical analysis, as well as personal reminiscence, all rendered with a novelist s eye for the particular, for emotional nuance, for chronological progression. . . . Steadily, forthrightly, we come in touch with the nature of delusions and hallucinations: the complex, symbolically charged, nightmarish world of fear, suspicion, irritability and truculence. Recovered from his illness, Beers began a lifelong crusade, through the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and the American Foundation for Mental Hygiene, to revolutionize the care and treatment of the mentally ill. The persuasive chronicler of mental illness became a sophisticated, pragmatic organizer and reformer. A Mind That Found Itself was first published in 1908 but remains compelling and clinically accurate--an unforgettable reading experience., At once a classic account of the ravages of mental illness and a major American autobiography, A Mind That Found Itself tells the story of a young man who is gradually enveloped by a psychosis. His well-meaning family commits him to a series of mental hospitals, but he is brutalized by the treatment, and his moments of fleeting sanity become fewer and fewer. His ultimate recovery is a triumph of the human spirit. The publication of A Mind That Found Itself did for the American mental health movement what Thomas Paineís Common Sense did for the American Revolution. Moreover, it grips the imagination of readers not because it is a document of social reform but because it is a superb narrative. As the distinguished psychiatrist and writer Robert Coles has noted, the book ìprovides the virtues of clinical analysis, as well as personal reminiscence, all rendered with a novelistís eye for the particular, for emotional nuance, for chronological progression. . . . Steadily, forthrightly, we come in touch with the nature of delusions and hallucinations: the complex, symbolically charged, nightmarish world of fear, suspicion, irritability and truculence.î Recovered from his illness, Beers began a lifelong crusade, through the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and the American Foundation for Mental Hygiene, to revolutionize the care and treatment of the mentally ill. The persuasive chronicler of mental illness became a sophisticated, pragmatic organizer and reformer. A Mind That Found Itself was first published in 1908 but remains compelling and clinically accurate--an unforgettable reading experience.
LC Classification NumberRC439.B4 1981
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- 13. Jul. 2017
This book is a classic of psychiatric history and the creation of reforms in the nature of treatment.
A very interesting personal account of a mans illness and care at the turn of the century.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 03. Mai. 2025
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