Mental ills and bodily cures : psychiatric treatment in the first half of the twenthieth century
Mental ills and bodily cures : psychiatric treatment in the first half of the twenthieth century
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精神疾病与身体治疗：二十世纪上半叶的精神病治疗
DOI：
10.2307/2650446
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发表时间：
1999
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通讯作者：
J. Braslow
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作者：
H. Kushner;J. Braslow
《精神疾病和身体治愈》描绘了一个精神病医学发展到我们现在发现的极端甚至残酷的方法来治疗身体来治愈心灵的时代。从一个宝库的加州精神病医院的记录，包括许多逐字记录的病人采访，乔尔布拉斯洛巧妙地重建世界的精神病人和他们的医生在二十世纪上半叶。水疗、绝育、电击、脑叶切除术和阴蒂切除术--这些都是这些医院使用的激烈的躯体治疗方法。通过让未来的治疗者和那些处于心理和身体痛苦中的人为自己说话，布拉斯洛捕捉到了围绕这些疗法的激烈和情感的相互作用。他的调查结合了揭示临床细节与“在那里”的即时性，在机构设置，而决策，程序进行，并观察到的结果，所有参与。我们了解到善意的医生如何合理化并将其视为治疗性治疗，而这些治疗往往会产生可怕的后果，以及社会和文化世界在生物精神病学实践中的地位。这本书将吸引医学历史学家，执业精神病学家，以及每个知道或见过精神痛苦的人。
"Mental Ills and Bodily Cures" depicts a time when psychiatric medicine went to lengths we now find extreme and perhaps even brutal ways to heal the mind by treating the body. From a treasure trove of California psychiatric hospital records, including many verbatim transcripts of patient interviews, Joel Braslow masterfully reconstructs the world of mental patients and their doctors in the first half of the twentieth century. Hydrotherapy, sterilization, electroshock, lobotomy, and clitoridectomy - these were among the drastic somatic treatments used in these hospitals. By allowing the would-be healers and those in psychological and physical distress to speak for themselves, Braslow captures the intense and emotional interplay surrounding these therapies. His investigation combines revealing clinical detail with the immediacy of 'being there' in the institutional setting while decisions are made, procedures undertaken, and results observed by all those involved. We learn how well-intentioned physicians could rationalize and regard as therapeutic treatments that often had dreadful consequences, and how much the social and cultural world is inscribed within the practice of biological psychiatry. The book will interest historians of medicine, practicing psychiatrists, and everyone who knows or has seen what it's like to be in mental distress.