Hearing Voices: The History of Psychiatry in Ireland

by Brendan Kelly and Brendan D. Kelly

Book Overview

Hearing Voices: The History of Psychiatry in Ireland is a monumental work by one of Ireland's leading psychiatrists, encompassing every psychiatric development from the Middle Ages to the present day, and examining their far-reaching social and political effects. From the "Glenn of Lunatics", said to cure mental illness, to the overloaded asylums of later centuries - with more beds for the mentally ill than any other country in the world - Ireland...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788550862
• ISBN13: 9781788550864
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.9" x 9.7"