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A history of psychiatry :

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047115749X

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0471245313

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9780471157496

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9780471245315

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A history of psychiatry :

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[Book]

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from the era of the asylum to the age of Prozac /

First Statement of Responsibility

by Edward Shorter.

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New York :

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John Wiley & Sons,

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©1997.

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xii, 436 pages :

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illustrations ;

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25 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-420) and index.

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The birth of psychiatry -- The asylum era -- The first biological psychiatry -- Nerves -- The psychoanalytic hiatus -- Alternatives -- The second biological psychiatry -- From Freud to Prozac -- Notes -- Index.

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"With cinematic scope and precision, Shorter shows us the harsh, farcical, and inspiring realities of society's changing attitudes toward its mentally ill and the efforts of generations of scientists and physicians to ease their suffering. He takes us inside the eighteenth-century asylums, with their restraints and beatings, and guides us through the landscaped boulevards of the spas and rest homes where the "nervous disorders" of the Victorian elite were treated with bromides, buttermilk, and kind words. He leads us through the teeming "snake pits" of early twentieth-century public mental hospitals and the gleaming laboratories of today's pharmaceutical cartels." "Writing in the tradition of the best social history, Shorter delineates the major scientific and cultural forces that shaped the development of psychiatry. Along the way, he paints vivid portraits of the leading figures - names such as Esquirol and Pinel, Krafft-Ebing and Kraepelin, Freud and Horney - who peopled the history of psychiatry. He pulls no punches in assessing the roles these men and women played in advancing our understanding of the biological origins of mental illness, or sidetracking psychiatry into pseudoscience, metaphysics, and fanaticism."--Jacket.

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History of psychiatry.

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History of psychiatry.

Psychiatry-- History.

Psychiatry-- history.

Psychoanalysis-- history.

Psychotherapy-- history.

Social Values.

Psychiatrie.

Psychiatry-- History.

Psychiatry.

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Shorter, Edward.

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20200822113950.0

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[Book]

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