Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the Mind

Download or read book Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the Mind written by Benjamin Rush and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1981 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.