Mind fixers psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness
In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth-century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists to insist,...
| Main Author: | Harrington, Anne, 1960- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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| Summary: |
In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth-century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists to insist, with some justification, that they had better ways of analyzing and fixing minds. |
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| Physical Description: |
xviii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-344) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780393071221 0393071227 |
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