The Last of the Lunatics - Softcover
A searing historical account of the treatment of the mentally ill in Australia before the invention of tranquilizers.
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John Cawte held a personal chair in psychiatry and community medicine at the University of New South Wales until 1990. He is a fellow of the national associations of psychiatrists in Australia, the UK, and the United States. The latest of his five books is Healers of Arnhem Land (1996). He is an officer of the Order of Australia, for services to psychiatry and Aboriginal health.
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“This fascinating book is a distillation of a lifetime of humane and common sense treatment of the mentally ill.” —Medical Journal of Australia
“The real pleasure of this book lies in the refreshing lack of jargon, its honesty and simplicity and its puncturing of the balloons of political correctness. There is also a wonderful collection of case histories which all psychiatrists will immediately feel at home with despite the intervening years and technological developments. It is a thoughtful book and a wise one. It seamlessly connects our psychiatric past and present and forcefully brings to mind the fate of those who forget their own history.” —Canadian Psychiatric Journal
“The real pleasure of this book lies in the refreshing lack of jargon, its honesty and simplicity and its puncturing of the balloons of political correctness. There is also a wonderful collection of case histories which all psychiatrists will immediately feel at home with despite the intervening years and technological developments. It is a thoughtful book and a wise one. It seamlessly connects our psychiatric past and present and forcefully brings to mind the fate of those who forget their own history.” —Canadian Psychiatric Journal
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- PublisherMelbourne University Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0522848044
- ISBN 13 9780522848045
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages188
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