Masters of the Mind: Exploring the Story of Mental Illness from Ancient Times to the New Millennium (Hardcover)

Prologue.

PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL STORIES.

1. Demythologizing the Ancients’ Spirits.

2. Resuscitating and Fashioning Scientific Thinking.

PART II: HUMANITARIAN STORIES.

3. Creating and Reforming the Custodial Asylum.

4. Rekindling Sensibilities and Releasing Potentials.

PART III: NEUROSCIENTIFIC STORIES.

5. Identifying, Describing, and Classifying Psychiatric Disorders.

6. Exploring and Altering the Convoluted Brain.

PART IV: PSYCHOANALYTIC STORIES.

7. Exposing and Decoding the Unconscious.

8. Innovating the Intricacies of Intrapsychic Thought.

PART V: PSYCHOSCIENTIFIC STORIES.

9. Untangling Learning and Remedying Behavior.

10. Scrutinizing Introspections and Rebuilding Cognitions.

PART VI: SOCIOCULTURAL STORIES.

11. Unveiling the Social and Anthropological World.

12. Exploring and Enhancing Interpersonal Relationships.

PART VII: PERSONOLOGIC STORIES.

13. Enlisting Evolution to Elucidate Human Adaptations.

14. Systematically Measuring and Integrating the Mind.

Epilogue.

About the Author.

References.

Index.