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Psychiatry And Its Discontents

by Andrew Scull
language: english
Publisher: University of California Press, June of 2021 ‧
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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.

Psychiatry And Its Discontents

by Andrew Scull

Property Description
ISBN: 9780520383135
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date: June of 2021
Language: English
Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 23 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 376
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Medicine > Psychiatry
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780520383135