Psychiatry and Its Discontents

by Andrew 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520383133

ISBN13:9780520383135

Release Date:June 2021

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:376 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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