The Unquiet Mind: The autobiography of a physician in psychological medicine, by Sargant, William
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The Unquiet Mind: The autobiography of a physician in psychological medicine, by Sargant, William. Little, Brown and Company: Boston, Massachusetts, 1967. Edition: First American Edition. Hardcover, xxii, 240 pages. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine; publisher's logo blind-stamped in cener of front cover. Painting of the authors as frontis. Includes bibliographic details of works discussed and an Index. Preface by D. Ewen Cameron, M.D.

Condition: Good Plus in a Fair jacket. Spine neds bumped. Primary flaw to book is fading to the edges of the black cover. Jacket is rubbed with numerous chips and tears. Largest chip is at lower spine end, as wide as the spine and extending 1.25 inches up the spine.

Contents: From the jacket

When Sargant first turned to psychiatry, the severely mentally ill were still being locked up in "insane asylums" where, often as not, they wasted their lives away in misery. Convinced that Freudian psychotherapy was not meeting the needs of the majority of patients, Sargant began his lifelong search for simple physiological treatments that could be widely applied in general hospitals by general practitioners. The book describes the gradual yet fascinating development of new drug therapy, the electric shock treatment, the insulin coma technique, and the modified leucotomy at the Maudsley and St. Thomas Hospitals, where Sargant worked.

During World War II, and most notably with the battle-shocked veterans of Dunkirk, Sargant and his friend Dr. Eliot Slater had an unprecedented opportunity to test their new treatments and theories. The results more than vindicated their efforts and firmly established the value of physical treatments for mental illness.