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Book cover for Jonathan Ablard: Madness in Buenos Aires

Madness in Buenos Aires : Patients, Psychiatrists and the Argentine State, 1880-1983

Jonathan Ablard
Paperback - $44.80

"Madness in Buenos Aires" examines the interactions between psychiatrists, patients and their families, and the national state in modern Argentina. This book offers a fresh interpretation of the Argentine state's relationship to modernity and social...

Book cover for American Psychological Association: Psychology and the National Institute of Mental Health

Psychology and the National Institute of Mental Health : A Historical Analysis of Science, Practice, and Policy

American Psychological Association
Hardcover - $72.60



Book cover for American Psychological Association: The Transformation of Psychology

The Transformation of Psychology : Influences of 19th-Century Philosophy, Technology, and Natural Science

American Psychological Association
Hardcover - $48.40

At the end of the 18th-Century, leading scholars believed that psychology was inherently constrained from rising to the level of a natural science. By the beginning of the 20th-Century, scientific psychology was pervasive. How did this change occur so...

Book cover for Rob Anderson: The Martin Buber-Carl Rogers Dialogue

The Martin Buber-Carl Rogers Dialogue : A New Transcript with Commentary

Rob Anderson
Paperback - $26.60



Book cover for Jonathan Andrews: Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade

Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade : The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London

Jonathan Andrews
Hardcover - $70.20

"The authors/editors have performed an invaluable service not only to the scholarly community, but to anyone who cares about the treatment of those we call mentally ill. Their transcription and editing of the candid case book of a prominent mid-eighteenth-century...

Book cover for Lisa Appignanesi: Mad, Bad and Sad

Mad, Bad and Sad : Women and the Mind Doctors

Lisa Appignanesi
Hardcover - $36.30

This brave and brilliantly researched intellectual history chronicles the relationship between women and mental illness since 1800, taking readers on a fascinating journey through the fragile, extraordinary human mind. 5 illustrations.

Book cover for Lisa Appignanesi: Mad, Bad, and Sad

Mad, Bad, and Sad : A History of Women and the Mind Doctors

Lisa Appignanesi
Paperback - $24.20

This brave and brilliantly researched intellectual history chronicles the relationship between women and mental illness since 1800, taking readers on a fascinating journey through the fragile, extraordinary human mind. 5 illustrations.

Book cover for Richard H. Armstrong: A Compulsion for Antiquity

A Compulsion for Antiquity : Freud and the Ancient World

Richard H. Armstrong
Hardcover - $72.60

"If psychoanalysis is the return of repressed antiquity, distorted to be sure by modern desire, yet still bearing the telltale traces of the ancient archive, then would not our growing distance from the archive of antiquity also imply that we are in...

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