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Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Jonathan Toms

    1. the Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments, UK

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Part of the book series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History (STMMH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Moral Treatment and ‘The Dialectic of the Family’

    • Jonathan Toms
    Pages 1-6

  3. Moral Treatment for the Community at Large

    • Jonathan Toms
    Pages 7-27

  4. The Mental Hygiene Movement’s Emotional Contradictions

    • Jonathan Toms
    Pages 28-52

  5. Dialectic Rightside Up?

    • Jonathan Toms
    Pages 53-83

  6. Developing in the Womb of the Old?

    • Jonathan Toms
    Pages 84-103

  7. Alternative Dialectics

    • Jonathan Toms
    Pages 104-136

  8. Alienation Revisited

    • Jonathan Toms
    Pages 137-171

  9. Dialectic Dismembered

    • Jonathan Toms
    Pages 172-201

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 203-262
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About this book

Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental hygiene movement within the broad sweep of modern British psychiatry, offering its own reinterpretation of important elements of this history.

Authors and Affiliations

  • the Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments, UK

    Jonathan Toms

About the author

Jonathan Toms is a Fellow of the Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments. He has a PhD in the history of medicine and was a Wellcome Funded Research Fellow at the University of Warwick Centre for the History of Medicine, UK, from 2006-9. He has published articles on the history of mental health and learning disability.

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