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Mind fixers : psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness / Anne Harrington.
Van Pelt Library RC455.4.B5 H37 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrington, Anne, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mental illness--Physiological aspects.
- Mental illness.
- Neuropsychiatry.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-344) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393071221
- 0393071227
- OCLC:
- 1037811097
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