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Title

The unquiet mind; the autobiography of a physician in psychological medicine [by] William Sargant. With a pref. by D. Ewen Cameron.

Author

Sargant, William Walters.

Publication

Boston, Little, Brown [1967]

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Details

Description

xxii, 240 pages portrait; 22 cm

Summary

"When Sargant first turned to psychiatry, the severely mentally ill were still being locked up in "insane asylums" where, often as not, they wasted their lives away in misery. Convinced that Freudian psychotherapy was not meeting the needs of the majority of patients, Sargant began his lifelong search for simple physiological treatments that could be widely applied in general hospitals by general practitioners. The book describes the gradual yet fascinating development of new drug therapy, the electric shock treatment, the insulin coma technique, and the modified leucotomy at the Maudsley and St. Thomas Hospitals, where Sargant worked"--

Series Statement

An Atlantic Monthly Press book

Subject

• Sargant, William Walters
• Sargant, William Walters
• Physicians > Biography
• Mental illness
• Mental Disorders
• mental disorders
• Mental illness
• Physicians

Genre/Form

• Autobiography
• autobiographies (literary works)
• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Autobiographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 231-232.

Contents

Hanwell and Sussex -- Early years -- From Nottingham to the Maudsley -- The Maudsley Hospital -- The advent of new treatments -- Boston: 1938-1939 -- Travels in America -- Outbreak of war -- Psychiatric treatments in World War II -- Dunkirk and after -- More about World War II -- Pavlov's impact on modern psychiatry -- The post-War dilemma -- A second year in America -- Religious revivals -- The National Health Service -- False trails -- Hospital and private practice -- A second bout of tuberculosis -- Psychiatrists and lawyers -- Modern treatments.

LCCN

67023830

OCLC

• ocm00183200
• 183200
• SCSB-218339

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library