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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Table of Contents:
- Doctors' stories
- Betting on anatomy
- Biology in disarray
- A fragile Freudian triumph
- Crisis and revolt
- Disease stories
- Schizophrenia
- Depression
- Manic-depression
- Unfinished stories
- False dawn
- Afterthoughts.