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Volume 338:204 January 15, 1998 Number 3
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Mental Ills and Bodily Cures: Psychiatric treatment in the first half of the twentieth century

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(Medicine and Society. Vol. 8.) By Joel Braslow. 240 pp. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1997. $40. ISBN 0-520-20547-2.

Mental Ills and Bodily Cures is somewhat misleadingly titled: it is not a general history of the physical therapies, or bodily cures, that prevailed in psychiatry before the introduction of chlorpromazine, but rather an account of the use of these therapies in two California psychiatric institutions, Patton State Hospital and Stockton State Hospital. Braslow, like most historians of medicine, is generally hostile to the early therapies that ushered in biologic psychiatry, such as malaria-fever therapy, insulin coma, lobotomy, and similar treatments that acted on the physical substance of the brain. A practicing psychiatrist who also completed a Ph.D. in . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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