Sane Asylums

Jerry M. Kantor, L.Ac., CCH, MMHS, is a faculty member of the Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine and owner of Vital Force Health Care LLC, a Boston-area homeopathy and acupuncture practice. The first acupuncturist to receive an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Anaesthesiology, Kantor is the author of Interpreting Chronic Illness, The Toxic Relationship Cure, and Autism Reversal Toolbox. He lives in Dedham, Massachusetts.

• Foreword by Eric Leskowitz, M.D. PrefaceINTRODUCTION The Dead Sea Scrolls of Homeopathy and Psychiatry 1 Who Are the Mad and Where Shall They Dwell? 2 The Dawn of Enlightened Mental Health Care3 Homeopathy to the Fore4 The Madness of Mary Todd Lincoln 5 Enter Selden Haines Talcott 6 Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital’s Utopian Agenda 7 Walking the Talk8 Play Ball! The Innovation of Baseball Therapy 9 Genius Physician and Nurse-Educator Clara Barrus10 Disciples and Satellites of the Mother Church 11 Concessions to the Spirit of the Times 12 Investing in Sanity Appendices 1 Compendium of Madness Perspectives 2 Exemplifying Nanomedicine: The Research of Dr. Iris Bell 3 Samuel Hahnemann’s Mental Health Aphorisms 4 Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital Treatments and Case Studies 5 The 1916 General Summary of Homeopathic Hospitals and Sanatoriums Resources Notes Bibliography IndexAbout the Author

“Sane Asylums is a brilliant stroll through medical history, showing that homeopathic physicians were more than a hundred years ahead of their time. The homeopathic mental health institutions were truly sane asylums; that is, they integrated homeopathic treatment with nutritional therapy, physical exercise, play therapy, and respectful and caring personalized treatment. In terms of mental health care, we can now say that there really were the ‘good old days’ in this medical specialty.”