The quest for mental health : a tale of science, medicine, scandal, sorrow, and mass society / Ian Dowbiggin.
2011
RA790 .D69 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
The quest for mental health : a tale of science, medicine, scandal, sorrow, and mass society / Ian Dowbiggin.
Author
Dowbiggin, Ian Robert, 1952-
ISBN
9780521868679
052186867X
9780521688680 (pbk.)
052168868X (pbk.)
052186867X
9780521688680 (pbk.)
052168868X (pbk.)
Publication Details
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
x, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
RA790 .D69 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.196/89
Summary
"This is the story of one of the most far-reaching human endeavors in history: the quest for mental well-being. From its origins in the eighteenth century to its wide scope in the early twenty-first, this search for emotional health and welfare has cost billions. In the name of mental health, millions around the world have been tranquilized, institutionalized, psycho-analyzed, sterilized, lobotomized and even euthanized. Yet at the dawn of the new millennium, reported rates of depression and anxiety are unprecedentedly high. Drawing on years of field research, Ian Dowbiggin argues that if the quest for emotional well-being has reached a crisis point in the twenty-first century, it is because mass society is enveloped by cultures of therapism and consumerism, which increasingly advocate bureaucratic and managerial approaches to health and welfare"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. A new egalitarianism; 3. Bricks and mortar humanity; 4. Mental hygiene; 5. A bottomless pit; 6. Emotional welfare.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Cambridge essential histories
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