Scull, Andrew T. (Author)
University of California Press
Physical Details: 376 pp.
Language: English
"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
...MoreReview Theodore M. Porter (2020) Review of "Psychiatry and Its Discontents". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 222-224).
Review Erika Dyck (2020) Review of "Psychiatry and Its Discontents". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 688-689).
Review Rafael Huertas (2020) Review of "Psychiatry and Its Discontents". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 828-830).
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