Masters of the mind :

Millon, Theodore.

Masters of the mind : exploring the story of mental illness from ancient times to the new millennium / Theodore Millon ; with contributions by Seth D. Grossman and Sarah E. Meagher ; portraits by Theodore Millon and Carrie N. Millon. - Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2004. - xxiii, 641 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 599-616) and index.

Philosophical Stories -- Demythologizing the Ancients' Spirits -- Resuscitating and Fashioning Scientific Thinking -- Humanitarian Stories -- Creating and Reforming the Custodial Asylum -- Rekindling Sensibilities and Releasing Potentials -- Neuroscientific Stories -- Identifying, Describing and Classifying Psychiatric Disorders -- Exploring and Altering the Convoluted Brain -- Psychoanalytic Stories -- Exposing and Decoding the Unconscious -- Innovating the Intricacies of Intrapsychic Thought -- Psychoscientific Stories -- Untangling Learning and Remedying Behavior -- Scrutinizing Introspections and Rebuilding Cognitions -- Sociocultural Stories -- Unveiling the Social and Anthropologic World -- Exploring and Enhancing Interpersonal Relationships -- Personologic Stories -- Enlisting Evolution to Elucidate Human Adaptations -- Systematically Measuring and Integrating the Mind.

0471469858 (cloth)

2004043538


Mental illness--History.
Psychology, Clinical--history--Biography.
Mental Disorders--therapy--Biography.