Psychiatry and Its Discontents

Andrew Scull is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is past president of the Society for the Social History of Medicine and the author of numerous books, including Madness in Civilization, Hysteria, and others.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: The Travails of PsychiatryPART 1. The Asylum and Its Discontents2. The Fictions of Foucault’s Scholarship: Madness and Civilization Revisited3. The Asylum, the Hospital, and the Clinic4. A Culture of Complaint: Psychiatry and Its Critics5. Promises of Miracles: Religion as Science, and Science as ReligionPART 2. Whither Twentieth-Century Psychiatry?6. Burying Freud7. Psychobiology, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis: The Intersecting Careers of Adolf Meyer, Phyllis Greenacre, and Curt Richter8. Mangling Memories9. Creating a New Psychiatry: On the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rise of Academic PsychiatryPART 3. Transformations and Interpretations10. Shrinks: Doctor Pangloss11. The Hunting of the Snark: The Search for a History of Neuropsychiatry12. Contending Professions: Sciences of Brain and Mind in the United States, 1900–2013PART 4. Neuroscience and the Biological Turn13. Trauma14. Empathy: Reading Other People’s Minds15. Mind, Brain, Law, and Culture16. Left Brain, Right Brain, One Brain, Two Brains17. Delusions of Progress: Psychiatry’s Diagnostic ManualNotesIndex

"From the Victorian asylum era and the rise and fall of psychoanalysis to the arrival of psychopharmacology and neuroscience, Scull chronicles the medicalization of mental illness with balance and scepticism. He is trenchant on psychiatry’s failures, from prefrontal lobotomy to ‘care in the community’; critical of neuro-reductionism; eloquent on diagnosis debates; and ever aware of the human suffering at his chronicle’s core.”