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Hardcover Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness Book

ISBN: 0393071227

ISBN13: 9780393071221

Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness

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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.

But when the Freudians overreached, they drove psychiatry into a...

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