عنوان

Psychiatry and its discontents /

(Number (ISBN

0520973577

(Number (ISBN

9780520973572

Erroneous ISBN

0520305493

Erroneous ISBN

9780520305496

Title Proper

Psychiatry and its discontents /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Andrew Scull.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Oakland, California :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiii, 356 pages) :

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illustrations

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction : the travails of psychiatry -- The fictions of Foucault's scholarship : madness and civilization revisited -- The asylum, the hospital, and the clinic -- A culture of complaint -- Promises of miracles : religion as science and science as religion -- Burying Freud -- Psychobiology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis : the intersecting careers of Adolf Meyer, Phyllis Greenacre, and Curt Richter -- Mangling memories -- A new psychiatry : The Rockefeller Foundation and the rise of academic psychiatry -- Shrinks : Dr. Pangloss -- The hunting of the snark : the search for a history of neuropsychiatry -- Contending professions : sciences of brain and mind in the United States, 1850-2013 -- Trauma -- Empathy : reading other people's minds -- Mind, brain, law, and culture -- Left brain, right brain : one brain, two brains -- Delusions of progress : psychiatry's diagnostic manual

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"Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the psychiatric enterprise. The book's historical sweep is broad, ranging from the age of the asylum to the rise of psychopharmacology and the dubious triumphs of "community care." Freud and Foucault, Christian Science and Scientology, psychosurgery and modern drug treatments, trauma and the effects of war on the human psyche, the siren song of neuroscience, and the predicaments confronting the profession at the dawn of the new millennium are but some of the issues considered here. Collectively, the essays that make up Psychiatry and Its Discontents provide a vivid and compelling portrait of the recurring crises of legitimacy that mad-doctors (as they were once called) have endured, and of the impact of psychiatry's ideas and interventions on the lives of those afflicted with mental illness"--Provided by publisher

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JSTOR

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22573/ctvgz0bkc

Title

Psychiatry and its discontents.

International Standard Book Number

9780520305496

Psychiatry.

Psychiatry.

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MEDICAL-- Internal Medicine.

Psychiatry.

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Edition

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Book number

Class number

Scull, Andrew,1947-

Date of Transaction

20200822115140.0

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