Title The last of the lunatics / John Cawte

Published Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1998

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Description ix, 175 pages ; 22 cm Contents 1. The Hound of the Baskervilles -- 2. An Airing Court in 1950 -- 3. Asylum Apprentice -- 4. Asylum Doctors -- 5. The Watch for Brain Syphilis -- 6. Grapes from Thorns, Figs from Thistles -- 7. The Receiving House -- 8. A Personal Analysis -- 9. From Shock Treatments to Indian Snakeroot -- 10. Mania -- 11. Aladdin and his Lamp -- 12. Turbulent and Dangerous Lunacy -- 13. Horrors from the Drink -- 14. The Four Million of O. Henry -- 15. Outback Insanity -- 16. A Pilgrimage -- 17. A Philosophy of Psychiatry -- Title page from Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy Bibliography Bibliography: page 175 Subject Cawte, John. SUBJECT Cawte, J (John) Cawte, J. (John) Subject Enfield Receiving House -- Case studies. Parkside Mental Hospital -- Case studies. Mental illness -- Treatment -- Australia -- History -- 20th century. Psychiatric hospital care -- Australia -- South Australia -- History. SUBJECT Enfield Receiving House (Hospital) Subject Psychiatrists -- Australia -- Biography. Psychiatry. Mental Disorders -- therapy. Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history. Mental Disorders -- history. Mental Disorders -- therapy. Psychiatry. Anecdotes as Topic. SUBJECT Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 Genre/Form Personal Narrative. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. LC no. 00303787 ISBN 0522848044

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