Psychiatry and Its Discontents

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvAndrew Scull

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Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull traces the rise of the field, the midcentury hegemony of psychoanalytic methods, and the paradigm’s decline with the ascendance of biological and pharmaceutical approaches to mental illness. 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.” The essays in Psychiatry and Its Discontents provide a vivid and compelling portrait of the recurring crises of legitimacy experienced by “mad-doctors,” as psychiatrists were once called, and illustrates the impact of psychiatry’s ideas and interventions on the lives of those afflicted with mental illness.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-06-08
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor376
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520383135

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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.”