Author: Donnelly, Michael
Title: Managing the Mind. A Study of Medical Psychology in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
Description: London / New York, Tavistock Publications, (1983). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiv,193 pp. Minor rubbing, VG, in a rubbed,chipped & torn dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: 'Fitting Receptacles': A Social Policy for the Insane; Representations of the Asylum; The Architecture of Confinement; The Insane;Medical Psychology & Allied Discourses: The Problem of the Irrational; The Psychology of Social Classes; Universal Reason & Individual Differences; Conclusion.

Keywords: History of Medicine, Great Britain, Medical Psychology, Insane Asylum, Asylums, Insanity, Psychiatry, Social Policy, Mental Illness