Bibliograph

Mind fixers, psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness, Anne Harrington

Type

Label

Mind fixers, psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness, Anne Harrington

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-344) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mind fixers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1037811097

Responsibility statement

Anne Harrington

Sub title

psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness

Summary

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

Table Of 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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