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  2. Prinzhorn Collection - Wikipedia

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    [1] [4] Between 1919 and 1921 the pair visited mental hospitals across Germany, initially collecting over 5000 works. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 2 ] As of 2016, the collection held over 20,000 works. [ 5 ] Prinzhorn, a physician and art historian, was engaged by the hospital in 1919 specifically to improve and expand the collection.

  3. Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health - Wikipedia

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    According to Hubbard, the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health follows the original line of research: A) The discovery of the dynamic principle of existence and its meaning. B) The discovery of the source of aberration: the reactive mind. C) Therapy and its application. Hubbard leaves out all the basic philosophy. [23]

  4. Psychiatric history - Wikipedia

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    A psychiatric history is the result of a medical process where a clinician working in the field of mental health (usually a psychiatrist) systematically records the content of an interview with a patient. This is then combined with the mental status examination to produce a "psychiatric formulation" of the person being examined.

  5. Girl, Interrupted - Wikipedia

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    Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling [1] 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in an American psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

  6. Mental health - Wikipedia

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    Mental health prevention is defined as intervening to minimize mental health problems (i.e. risk factors) by addressing determinants of mental health problems before a specific mental health problem has been identified in the individual, group, or population of focus with the ultimate goal of reducing the number of future mental health problems ...

  7. The Meaning of Anxiety - Wikipedia

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    First edition (1950) Meaning of Anxiety is a book by Rollo May.It was published first in 1950 and then again in a revised 1977 edition. The book is notable for questioning fundamental assumptions about mental health and asserts that anxiety in fact aids in the development of an ultimately healthy personality.

  8. Tortured artist - Wikipedia

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    Van Gogh, who struggled with poverty and mental illness for most of his life, is regarded as a famous example of the tortured artist. A tortured artist is a stock character and stereotype who is in constant torment due to frustrations with art, other people, or the world in general. The trope is often associated with mental illness. [1]

  9. Anti-psychiatry - Wikipedia

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    Cooper used the term "anti-psychiatry" in 1967, and wrote the book Psychiatry and Anti-psychiatry in 1971. [6] [4] [5] The word Antipsychiatrie was already used in Germany in 1904. [8] Thomas Szasz introduced the definition of mental illness as a "myth" in the book The Myth of Mental Illness (1961). However his literature actually very clearly ...