Book Review: Emmanuel Akyeampong, Allan G. Hill and Arthur Kleinman (eds), The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa (Leonard Smith)

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-105
Author(s):  
Leonard Smith
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Psychiatric Practice

scholarly journals Book Review: Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750–1950s

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Linda Loos Scarth
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Online Encyclopedia ◽  
The Times

Therapeutics is defined as the treatment and care of a patient to both prevent and combat disease and injury in the online Encyclopedia Britannica. This encyclopedia is an attempt to gather many of the treatments applied in institutions for the mentally ill (insane), using the writings of proponents and practitioners of these treatments. While a few of the therapies described and documented in this encyclopedia appear to be humane and well intentioned (Hydrotherapy—beach bathing), many others appear to be punitive and even sadistic when compared to contradictory views at the times and definitely so in light of current modern understandings of mental illness. Some forms of hydrotherapy such as douche, drenching, mustard bath, etc. might be considered torture.

Book Review: Work and Mental Illness

1993 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-151
Author(s):  
Terry Krupa
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness

The rise and fall of anti-psychiatry

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 743-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mervat Nasser
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Psychiatric Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Mental Health Institutions ◽  
The Impact

A review is made of the anti-psychiatric movement through its major protagonists, Lacan, Laing, Cooper and Szasz. The ideology was set to challenge the concept of mental illness and question the authority of the psychiatrist and the need for mental health institutions. The anti-psychiatric movement received a lot of attention in the 1970s but is now considered to be of the past and of likely interest to the psychiatric historian. However, the impact of the movement on current psychiatric practice requires further re-examination and appraisal.

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