The Psychiatric Persuasion Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America / Elizabeth Lunbeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lunbeck, Elizabeth.

Language:

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Boston State Hospital. Psychopathic Department.

Boston State Hospital. Psychopathic Department--History.

Boston State Hospital.

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Psychiatry--Philosophy.

Psychoanalysis and culture--United States.

Psychiatry--United States--Philosophy.

Psychiatry.

United States.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 431 p. )

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1994.

Summary:

In the years between 1900 and 1930, American psychiatrists transformed their profession from a marginal science focused primarily on the care of the mentally ill into a powerful discipline concerned with analyzing the common difficulties of everyday life. How did psychiatrists effect such a dramatic change in their profession's fortunes and aims? Here, Elizabeth Lunbeck examines how psychiatry grew to take the whole world of human endeavor as its object.

Contents:

Cover Page

Half-title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: From Insanity to Normality

One: Psychiatry between Old and New

Two: Professing Gender

Three: The Psychiatry of Everyday Life

Part Two: Institutional Practices

Four: Pathways to Psychiatric Scrutiny

Five: Classification

Six: Institutional Discipline

Part Three: Psychopathologies of Everyday Life

Seven: Woman as Hypersexual

Eight: Hysteria: The Revolt of the "Good Girl

Nine: Modern Manhood, Dissolute and Respectable

Ten: The Sexual Politics of Marriage

Eleven: Women, Alone and Together

Conclusion

Appendix

Note on Sources

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-418) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-04804-5

1-4008-4403-7

OCLC:

1246578683