American Protestant reactions to mental illness across three centuries /
Heather H. Vacek.
Waco, Texas :
Baylor University Press,
[2015]
1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Making theological sense out of suffering, sin, and sickness / Cotton Mather -- Christian vocation and the shape the secular profession / Benjamin Rush -- Advocating for the helpless, forgotten, and insane / Dorothea Dix -- Reclaiming religious authority in medicine / Anton Boisen -- A passionate plea to engage finds lukewarm reaction / Karl Menninger.
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A history of Protestant responses to mental illness from the colonial era to the present.
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Madness.
Mental illness-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
Protestantism-- United States-- History.
Mental illness-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.