Desperate Remedies : : Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness /

Desperate Remedies : : Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness / / Andrew Scull.

A sweeping history of American psychiatry—from prisons to hospitals to the lab to the analyst’s couch—by the award-winning author of Madness in Civilization. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind—the sorts of things that were once called “madness”—have been studied and treated by...

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Scull, Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • PART ONE. THE ASYLUM ERA
  • 1 Mausoleums of the Mad
  • 2 Disposing of Degenerates
  • 3 Psychobiology
  • 4 Freud Visits America
  • 5 The Germ of Madness
  • 6 Body and Mind
  • 7 Shocking the Brain
  • 8 The Checkered Career of Electroconvulsive Therapy
  • 9 Brain Surgery
  • 10 Selling Psychosurgery
  • 11 The End of the Affair
  • PART TWO. DISTURBED MINDS
  • 12 Creating a New Psychiatry
  • 13 Talk Therapy
  • 14 War
  • 15 Professional Transformations
  • 16 A Fragile Hegemony
  • PART THREE. A PSYCHIATRIC REVOLUTION
  • 17 The Birth of Psychopharmacology
  • 18 Community Care
  • 19 Diagnosing Mental Illness
  • 20 The Complexities of Psychopharmacology
  • 21 Genetics, Neuroscience, and Mental Illness
  • 22 The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry
  • Epilogue: Does Psychiatry Have a Future?
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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