Mind fixers : psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness / Anne Harrington.
- Harrington, Anne, 1960-
- Date:
- [2019]
- Books
About this work
Description
In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth-century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists to insist, with some justification, that they had better ways of analyzing and fixing minds.
Publication/Creation
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Physical description
xviii, 366 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
Edition
First Edition.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-344) and index.
Contents
Doctors' stories -- Betting on anatomy -- Biology in disarray -- A fragile Freudian triumph -- Crisis and revolt -- Disease stories -- Schizophrenia -- Depression -- Manic-depression -- Unfinished stories -- False dawn -- Afterthoughts.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicinePIC /HAROpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780393071221
- 0393071227