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Neurasthenia (from the Ancient Greek νεῦρον neuron "nerve" and ἀσθενής asthenés "weak") is a term that was first used as early as 1829 [6] for a mechanical weakness of the nerves. [ clarification needed ] It became a major diagnosis in North America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries after neurologist ...
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by sociologist Andrew Scull is a critical history of two hundred years of treatment of mental disorders in the United States. From the "birth of the asylum" in the 1830s to the drug trials and genetic studies of the 2000s, Scull catalogues efforts by psychoanalysts ...
About 75% of employees have struggled with an issue that affected their mental health, yet 8 out of 10 workers with a mental health condition say shame and stigma prevent them from seeking help ...
The "Haus Tornow am See" (former manor house) in Germany from 1912 is today separated into a special education school and a hotel with integrated work/job- and rehabilitation-training for people with mental disorders. Treatment and support for mental disorders are provided in psychiatric hospitals, clinics or a range of community mental health ...
An open letter condemning Trump that had been signed by 233 professionals as of early Friday also will run as a print ad in The New York Times, the PAC said in a statement sent to HuffPost.
More than 230 psychiatrists and mental health professionals have signed on to an open letter declaring Donald Trump to be far too mentally unstable to be president as part of a new ad campaign ...
Treatment Symptomatic Post-exertional malaise ( PEM ), sometimes referred to as post-exertional symptom exacerbation ( PESE ) [ 1 ] or post-exertional neuroimmune exhaustion (PENE) , [ 2 ] is a worsening of symptoms that occurs after minimal exertion.
From the later part of the second century through the early part of the ninth century, ghosts and devils were implicated in "ghostevil" insanity, which presumably resulted from possession by evil spirits. The "Dark Ages" in China, however, were neither so severe (in terms of the treatment of mental patients) nor as long-lasting as in the West.