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Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry.
GIC Collection at Penn Libraries
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luhrmann, T. M. (Tanya M.), 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology.
- Local Subjects:
- Psychology.
- Summary:
- A respected young American anthropologist brings her acute intelligence and her sophisticated powers of observation to bear on the world of psychiatry, showing how psychiatrists are trained, how they develop their particular way of seeing and listening to patients, and how the enormous ambiguities in the field affect its practitioners and patients.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 What's Wrong with the Patient? 25
- Chapter 2 The Arrow of Harm 84
- Chapter 3 The Culture and Its Contradictions 119
- Chapter 4 The Psychiatric Scientist and the Psychoanalyst 158
- Chapter 5 Where the Split Came From 203
- Chapter 6 The Crisis of Managed Care 239
- Chapter 7 Madness and Moral Responsibility 266.
- ISBN:
- 0679421912
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