Ministering to Minds Diseased

Ministering to Minds Diseased: A History of Psychiatric Treatment focuses on the advancements of methodologies, approaches, and techniques in the practice of psychiatry. The book first offers information on early physical treatments, epilepsy and its treatment, and later physical treatments. Discussions focus on hydrotherapy, bloodletting and transfusion, sleep, shock, and electrical treatments, fever therapy, and insulin and convulsion treatments. The manuscript then ponders on medicinal treatment, including narcotics, neuroleptic and antidepressant drugs, chemistry and the development of psychopharmacology, and lithium, vitamin, and hormone treatments. The text takes a look at the expansion of psychotherapy, behavior therapy, and evolution of mental hospitals. Topics include action techniques in psychotherapy, meditation, music therapy, early hospitals, madhouses, conditions, abuses, and reforms in hospitals, and retreat into custodialism. The manuscript then examines the development of a mental health service, including work therapy, treatment in the community, and mental nursing. The publication is a dependable source material for mental health experts and readers interested in psychiatric treatment.

Preface 1 IntroductionI Somatic Treatments 2 The Early Physical Treatments Sleep Hydrotherapy Bloodletting and Blood Transfusion Shock Treatment Electrical Treatment 3 Epilepsy and its Treatment 4 The Later Physical Treatments Fever Therapy Insulin Treatment Convulsion Treatment Electroconvulsive Therapy Surgery 5 Medicinal Treatment The Herbals and the Herbalists The Narcotics Chemistry and the Development of Psychopharmacology The Neuroleptic Drugs The Antidepressant Drugs The Anxiolytic Drugs Lithium Treatment Treatment with Vitamins Treatment with HormonesII The Psychotherapies 6 The Beginnings Mesmerism Hypnotism Psychoanalysis Analytical Psychology Individual Psychology 7 The Expansion of Psychotherapy The Later History of Psychoanalysis Psychotherapy Progresses Psychotherapy in the Second World War The Therapeutic Community Action Techniques in Psychotherapy Music Therapy Meditation 8 Behavior TherapyIII Environmental and Social Treatment 9 The Evolution of the Mental Hospital The Early Hospitals The Madhouses The Hospitals in the Eighteenth Century Nineteenth Century Advances Restraint and Non-Restraint The Retreat into Custodialism 10 The Development of a Mental Health Service The Advance is Resumed Work Therapy Treatment in the Community Mental Nursing 11 ConclusionsBiographical and Historical NotesBibliographyIndex