TPH : History and Memories of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital, 1925-1966

Publisher: Wall & Emerson
Product Code: YB02130
ISBN: 0921332459
Condition: Collectible Very Good

Price: $159.00

Signed on the title page by the editor, Dr. Edward Shorter. Book in excellent condition - light shelf wear.

Edward Shorter is a historian who specializes in the history of psychiatry. One would wish he had given this slim volume a less local title because its contents are of broad interest to the mental health professions as well as to the general reader. This book would be of special interest to readers of The American Journal of Psychiatry because mo st of the chapters of this multi-authored book revolve around a central character, Clarence B. Farrar (1874–1969), who was not only the Director of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital (and University Chair of Psychiatry) from 1925 to 1947 but also the eighth Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, from 1931 through 1965. Although intended to commemorate Toronto Psychiatric Hospital as a model of interdisciplinary harmony, the book demonstrates by its contents and its emphases the ascendancy of psychiatry over other mental health disciplines. This has not changed much over the years. In sum, the story of the birth and death of Toronto Psychiatric Hospital, as portrayed in these pages, is the story of psychiatry, concealing its adolescent embarrassments under progressive layers of modified nomenclature, geographic moves, administrative changes, philosophical revisions, and procedural renewals but retaining inexplicably its nostalgia for an idealized past.
Binding
Paperback  
Edition
1996
Condition
Collectible Very Good
Collector Alert
Signed
Language
English