Psychiatry and its discontents / Andrew Scull.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scull, Andrew, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Introduction : the travails of psychiatry

The fictions of Foucault's scholarship : madness and civilization revisited

The asylum, the hospital, and the clinic

A culture of complaint : psychiatry and its critics

Promises of miracles : religion as science and science as religion

Burying Freud

Psychobiology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis : the intersecting careers of Adolf Meyer, Phyllis Greenacre, and Curt Richter

Mangling memories

Creating a new psychiatry : on the Rockefeller Foundation and the rise of academic psychiatry

Shrinks : Doctor Pangloss

The hunting of the snark : the search for a history of neuropsychiatry

Contending professions : sciences of brain and mind in the United States, 1850-2013

Trauma

Empathy : reading other people's minds

Mind, brain, law, and culture

Left brain, right brain : one brain, two brains

Delusions of progress : psychiatry's diagnostic manual.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Scull, Andrew, 1946- author. Psychiatry and its discontents

ISBN:

9780520305496

0520305493

OCLC:

1078970786