The Psychiatric Persuasion : : Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America /

The Psychiatric Persuasion : : Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America / / E. Lunbeck.

In the years between 1900 and 1930, American psychiatrists transformed their profession from a marginal science focused primarily on the care of the mentally ill into a powerful discipline concerned with analyzing the common difficulties of everyday life. How did psychiatrists effect such a dramatic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Lunbeck, E.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©1994
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (445 p.) :; 13 halftones, 3 figures, 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE: FROM INSANITY TO NORMALITY
  • ONE. PSYCHIATRY BETWEEN OLD AND NEW
  • TWO. PROFESSING GENDER
  • THREE. THE PSYCHIATRY OF EVERYDAY LIFE
  • PART TWO: INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES
  • FOUR. PATHWAYS TO PSYCHIATRIC SCRUTINY
  • FIVE. CLASSIFICATION
  • SIX. INSTITUTIONAL DISCIPLINE
  • PART THREE: PSYCHOPATHOLOGIES OF EVERYDAY LIFE
  • SEVEN. WOMAN AS HYPERSEXUAL
  • EIGHT. HYSTERIA
  • NINE. MODERN MANHOOD, DISSOLUTE AND RESPECTABLE
  • TEN. THE SEXUAL POLITICS OF MARRIAGE
  • ELEVEN. WOMEN, ALONE AND TOGETHER
  • CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX. Demographic Characteristics of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital Patient Population
  • NOTE ON SOURCES
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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