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This volume contains the lectures of Dr. Benjamin Rush on physiology, which deal with the mind. Regarded as “the father of American psychiatry,” for over 30 years Dr. Rush treated insane patients at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. He published the first American book on psychiatry, “Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Disease of the Mind,” in 1812. Contents of this volume: General Introduction; The Syllabus; The Introductory Lecture; Introduction to the Lectures on Animal Life; Benjamin Rush Lectures on the Mind; Introduction to the Mind; Introduction to Sleep and Dreams; and Epilogue.
Price: $115.00
Pages: 735
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: The American Philosophical Society Press
Series: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society
Publication Date:
01 January 1981
Trim Size: 10.00 X 7.00 in
ISBN: 9780871691446
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology
"[The lectures] are comprehensive, they are lucid, they are eloquent. They provide insight into what was known at the turn into the 19th century of the nervous system and its functions… Instructive and truly fascinating reading."