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Mentally Ill Persons - history

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7 works

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    Healing the mind : a history of psychiatry from antiquity to the present / Michael H. Stone.

    Stone, Michael H., 1933-2023 | Date: 1998
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    Irish insanity, 1800-2000 / Damien Brennan.

    Brennan, Damien (Damien John) | Date: 2014
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    Patient tales : case histories and the uses of narrative in psychiatry / Carol Berkenkotter.

    Berkenkotter, Carol | Date: [2008]
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    The care of the insane and their legal control / by John Charles Bucknill.

    Bucknill, John Charles, 1817-1897. | Date: 1880
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    Madness and marginality : the lives of Kenya's white insane / Will Jackson.

    Jackson, Will, 1980- | Date: 2013

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Hospitals, Psychiatric - history
Psychiatry - history
Mental Disorders - history

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