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, with...

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Main Author: Harrington, Anne, 1960- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition:First Edition.
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