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Mental Health - history

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9 works

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    Voices in the history of madness : personal and professional perspectives on mental health and illness / Robert Ellis, Sarah Kendal, Steven J. Taylor, editors.

    | Date: [2021]
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    Insanity in ancient and modern life : with chapters on its prevention / by Daniel Hack Tuke.

    | Date: 1878
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    American psychosis : how the Federal government destroyed the mental illness treatment system / E. Fuller Torrey, MD.

    Torrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller), 1937- | Date: [2014]
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    Sectioned and Mental: A History of the Madhouse.

    | Date: 2010
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    Suburban pictures / David Beales.

    Beales, David, 1954- | Date: [2011?]

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