Psychiatry and its discontents

Psychiatry and its discontents / Andrew Scull.

"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 Fouca...

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Main Author: Scull, Andrew, 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Psychiatry.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 : psychiatry and its critics
  • 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
  • Creating a new psychiatry : on the Rockefeller Foundation and the rise of academic psychiatry
  • Shrinks : Doctor 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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