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서명/저자사항 | Psychiatry and its discontents/ Andrew Scull. [electronic resource]. |
개인저자 | Scull, Andrew,1947- author. |
발행사항 | Oakland, California: University of California Press, [2019]. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource: illustrations. |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: Scull, Andrew, 1947- Psychiatry and its discontents. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520305496 |
ISBN | 9780520973572 0520973577 |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
내용주기 | 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 |
요약 | "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 Foucault, Christian Science and Scientology, psychosurgery and modern drug treatments, trauma and the effects of war on the human psyche, the siren song of neuroscience, and the predicaments confronting the profession at the dawn of the new millennium are but some of the issues considered here. Collectively, the essays that make up Psychiatry and Its Discontents provide a vivid and compelling portrait of the recurring crises of legitimacy that mad-doctors (as they were once called) have endured, and of the impact of psychiatry's ideas and interventions on the lives of those afflicted with mental illness"--Provided by publisher |
일반주제명 | Psychiatry. Psychiatry. HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine MEDICAL / Diseases MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine MEDICAL / Internal Medicine PSYCHOLOGY / History Psychiatry. |
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