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Psychiatry and Its Discontents (Hardcover)
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Psychiatry and Its Discontents (Hardcover)
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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 psychoanalytic methods, and the
paradigm's decline with the ascendance of biological and
pharmaceutical approaches to mental illness. 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."
The essays in Psychiatry and Its Discontents provide a vivid and
compelling portrait of the recurring crises of legitimacy
experienced by "mad-doctors," as psychiatrists were once called,
and illustrates the impact of psychiatry's ideas and interventions
on the lives of those afflicted with mental illness.
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