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Psychiatry and Its Discontents /
Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull traces the rise of the field, the midcentury hegemony of psyc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2019]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: The Travails of Psychiatry
- PART I. The Asylum and Its Discontents
- 2. The Fictions of Foucault's Scholarship: Madness and Civilization Revisited
- 3. The Asylum, the Hospital, and the Clinic
- 4. A Culture of Complaint: Psychiatry and Its Critics
- 5. Promises of Miracles: Religion as Science, and Science as Religion
- PART II. Whither Twentieth-Century Psychiatry?
- 6. Burying Freud
- 7. Psychobiology, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis: The Intersecting Careers of Adolf Meyer, Phyllis Greenacre, and Curt Richter
- 8. Mangling Memories
- 9. Creating a New Psychiatry: On the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rise of Academic Psychiatry
- PART III. Transformations and Interpretations
- 10. Shrinks: Doctor Pangloss
- 11. The Hunting of the Snark: The Search for a History of Neuropsychiatry
- 12. Contending Professions: Sciences of the Brain and Mind in the United States, 1900-2013
- PART IV. Neuroscience and the Biological Turn
- 13. Trauma
- 14. Empathy: Reading Other People's Minds
- 15. Mind, Brain, Law, and Culture
- 16. Left Brain, Right Brain, One Brain, Two Brains
- 17. Delusions of Progress: Psychiatry's Diagnostic Manual
- Notes
- Index