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ISBN
9780522865158
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Algemeen
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27-08-2013
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Melbourne University Publishing
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John Cawte
Last Of The Lunatics
John Cawte
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John
Cawte
looks
back
in
amazement
to
his
years
as
a
young
doctor
in
an
Australian
madhouse.
He
now
recognises
the
people
he
treated
in
the
early
1950s
as
'the
last
of
the
lunatics'.Anti-psychotic
and
anti-depressant
drugs
were
unknown.
Bursting
asylums,
housing
an
uproar
of
insanity,
were
wastelands
of
stigma
and
dread.
'Management'
techniques
ranged
from
straitjackets
and
padded
cells
to
isolation
and
primitive
shock
treatments.Miraculously,
Cawte's
case
notes
were
saved
from
destruction.
Rereading
them
after
forty
years,
he
was
gripped
by
the
horror
they
revealed
and
the
questions
they
raised.
Much
has
changed
for
the
better.
Many
of
the
fearful
illnesses
he
recorded
have
disappeared,
treatments
are
vastly
more
effective
and
stigma
has
lessened.
But
his
notes
hold
a
surprising
and
challenging
lesson—that
temporary
'asylum'
from
the
stresses
of
life
is
often
all
that
a
disturbed
person
needs
for
recovery.The
Last
of
the
Lunatics
is
rich
and
moving.
The
personal
stories
recorded
by
a
perceptive
young
man
have
been
filtered
by
experience
and
sharpened
by
telling
literary
references.
Doctors,
psychiatrists,
those
who
remember
and
those
who
wonder
about
the
human
condition
will
be
touched
by
this
compassionate book.
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