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Book Review: How Brains Make up Their Minds. By Walter J. Freeman. Columbia University Press, New York, March 2000; ISBN: 0-231-12008-7; 171 pp., $24.95, (hardcover)

Book Review: How Brains Make up Their Minds. By Walter J. Freeman. Columbia University Press, New... P1: GRA Annals of Clinical Psychiatry (ACLI) pp664-acli-454883 November 9, 2002 12:6 Style file version Nov. 07, 2000 ° C Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol. 14, No. 3, September 2002 ( 2002) Book Reviews From Under the Cloud at Seven Steeples. 1878–1885. Another chapter contains a detailed account of the The Peculiarly Saddened Life of Anna Agnew daily life in the nineteenth-century asylum (“the in- at the Indiana Hospital for the Insane. By Lucy stitution was a village itself”), with a production of Jane King. Guild Press/Emmis Publishing, LP, serviceable garments and linens for inmates, an early Zionsville, IN, 2002; 189 pp., $24.95 (hardbound). version of occupational therapy. Interesting is also the discussion of the late nineteenth-century psychiatric armamentarium: salicylates, morphine, bromide salts, Cicero taught us that history is the teacher of and chloral hydrate, i.e., mostly sedatives. In addi- life (“Historia magistra vitae.”). Historical accounts tion, Dr King educates the reader about the cyclical of various episodes, institutions, methods in each dis- nature of the reform of psychiatric institutions and cipline, including psychiatry, are important, illuminat- policies. The final chapter of this part discusses the ing, and educational. Hopefully, yet not necessarily, fate of Anna Agnew after the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annals of Clinical Psychiatry Springer Journals

Book Review: How Brains Make up Their Minds. By Walter J. Freeman. Columbia University Press, New York, March 2000; ISBN: 0-231-12008-7; 171 pp., $24.95, (hardcover)

Schmetzer, Alan
Annals of Clinical Psychiatry , Volume 14 (3) – Oct 10, 2004
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2002 by American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists
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Medicine & Public Health; Neurology; Psychiatry; Psychopharmacology
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P1: GRA Annals of Clinical Psychiatry (ACLI) pp664-acli-454883 November 9, 2002 12:6 Style file version Nov. 07, 2000 ° C Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol. 14, No. 3, September 2002 ( 2002) Book Reviews From Under the Cloud at Seven Steeples. 1878–1885. Another chapter contains a detailed account of the The Peculiarly Saddened Life of Anna Agnew daily life in the nineteenth-century asylum (“the in- at the Indiana Hospital for the Insane. By Lucy stitution was a village itself”), with a production of Jane King. Guild Press/Emmis Publishing, LP, serviceable garments and linens for inmates, an early Zionsville, IN, 2002; 189 pp., $24.95 (hardbound). version of occupational therapy. Interesting is also the discussion of the late nineteenth-century psychiatric armamentarium: salicylates, morphine, bromide salts, Cicero taught us that history is the teacher of and chloral hydrate, i.e., mostly sedatives. In addi- life (“Historia magistra vitae.”). Historical accounts tion, Dr King educates the reader about the cyclical of various episodes, institutions, methods in each dis- nature of the reform of psychiatric institutions and cipline, including psychiatry, are important, illuminat- policies. The final chapter of this part discusses the ing, and educational. Hopefully, yet not necessarily, fate of Anna Agnew after the

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