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Psychiatry and its discontents /

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scull, Andrew, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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