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Insanity and Its Treatment: Lectures on the Treatment, Medical and Legal, of Insane Patients with a summary of the Laws in Force in the United States on the Confinement of the Insane

By: Blandford GF;Ray I

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Philaadelphia, Henry C. Lea: 1871

Seller ID: 46

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF 19TH CENTURY PSYCHIATRY TEXT THAT WAS IN PRINT FROM 1871 TO 1892. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original brown cloth boards, bookplate of Library of University of Cincinnati College of Medicine to front paste-down, gift of Drs. Road, ink signature of G. Road, M.D., front free endpaper, viii, 471 pages, publisher's advertisements end of text, cover edges and spine faded, otherwise very good. GEORGE FIELDING BLANDFORD (1829-1911) became closely associated with Dr. A. J. Sutherland, Physician to St. Luke's Hospital, where his early studies in insanity iwere made. In 1866 h...
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Some Human Oddities. Studies in the Queer, the Uncanny and the Fanatical

By: Dingwall EJ;

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Home & Van Thal Ltd.: 1947

Seller ID: 166

COLLECTION OF DETAILED ACCOUNTS OF BIZARRE PEOPLE THROUGH HISTORY. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, 198 pages, original red cloth binding, 12 black and white plates. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front endpaper. Very good, no dust jacket. PREFACE: 'Books about queer people are usually of two main types. There those in which a vivid presentation of each character is made, unencumbered with any references to the documentary and other sources consulted. Then there are the more technical accounts which are mainly medical and psychological monographs, which make no pretence to being anything ...
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Psychosurgery. Intelligence, Emotion and Social Behavior Following Prefrontal Lobotomy for Mental Disorders

By: Freeman, Walter; Watts, James W.; Hunt, Thelma

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Springfield, IL, Charles C. Thomas: 1942

Seller ID: 191

RARE FIRST EDITION OF 'PSYCHOSURGERY' BY PHYSICIAN WHO SUBJECTED THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS TO FRONTAL LOBOTOMY. 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, dedication 'To Egas Moniz who first conceived and executed a valid operation for mental disorder.' 81 figures, many of which are photographs of patients. 1/2 inch closed tear to rear edge of spine, corners and edges slightly bumped, no external or internal markings, gilt title to spine bright, binding tight, pages clean and crisp, very good. cf GARRISON-MORTON No. 4906 Prefrontal lobotomy in agitated depression. Report of a case. Med. An...
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Selective Partial Ablation of the Frontal Cortex. A Correlative Study of its Effects on Human Psychotic Subjects by the Columbia-Greystone Associates

By: Mettler, Fred A.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: New York, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc.: 1949

Seller ID: 428

LANDMARK REPORT OF CONTROLLED STUDY OF FRONTAL LOBOTOMY IN PSYCHOTIC PATIENTS--ASSOCIATION COPY. 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, handstamp of Frank K. Beach to front endpaper, 517 pages, many illustrations and photographic plates. Light fading to spine, gilt lettering bright, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked, very good. PREFACE: In this report we present a detailed account of our study of the 48 patients in our series—24 of whom were operated upon and 24 in a control group. ... While we feel that much has been accomplished by this projec...
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Obedience to Authority, an Experimental View

By: Milgram S;

Price: $60.00

Publisher: London, Travistock Publications Ltd.: 1974

Seller ID: 162

1974 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF STANLEY MILGRAM'S 'ELECTRIC SHOCK' PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENT. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, xvi, 224 pages, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, illustrated with photographs and diagrams, very good in very good unclipped dust jacket. STANLEY MILGRAM (1933 - 1984) was an American social psychologist, best known for his controversial experiment on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale. Milgram was influenced by the events of the Holocaust, especially the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in developing the experiment. After earning a Ph.D. in social...
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Contributions to Mental Pathology

By: Ray I;

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company: 1873

Seller ID: 106

1873 SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF PAPERS BY NOTED AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIST ON MENTAL HEALTH AND JURISPRUDENCE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, vii, 558 pages,original green cloth boards, gilt title on cover and spine, covers and spine darkened, corners and edges worn, front hinge starting, previous owners' signatures on front endpaper, remaining pages crisp and unmarked (not ex-library). ISAAC RAY (1807-1881) was Superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane in Augusta, Maine, and subsequently oversaw construction of Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Islane. He was one of the 'original thirteen'...
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Thinking, Feeling, Doing

By: Scripture WW

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, New York, Flood and Vincent, the Chautauqua-Century Press: 1895

Seller ID: 39

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK ON EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY IN ENGLISH, WITH OVER 200 ILLUSTRATIONS. 7 3/4 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth boards, spine darkened, color frontispiece and 209 wood engravings in the text, xii, 304 pages, pencil inscriptions back of rear endpaper, otherwise unmarked, very good. PREFACE: 'This is the first book on the new, or experimental, psychology written in the English language. That it has been written expressly for the people will, I hope, be taken as evidence of the attitude of the science in its desire to serve humanity. In one respect I have depar...
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Illustrations of the influence of the Mind Upon the Body in Health and Disease designed to Elucidate the Action of the Imagination

By: Tuke DH

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Philadlphia, Henry C. Lea's Son & Co.: 1884

Seller ID: 38

Binding: xvi

19TH CENTURY MONOGRAPH ON THE MIND-BODY CONNECTION IN DISEASE, COPY OF PHYSICIAN MEDICAL PUBLISHER. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth boards, xvi, 482 pages, ink inscription on title page, 'Presented to the Cin. Hosp. Library by Dr. J. C. Culbertson,' with embossed stamp of Cincinnati Hospital Library. Two plates (1 colored) showing neural pathways, publisher's catalogue at rear. Corners and edge rubbed, spine dulled, ex-institutional library, overall very good. FROM PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION: 'The objects of the following pages may be thus stated: 1. To collect together in ...
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Category: Psychiatry