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age of the asylum
ascendance of biological and pharmaceutical approaches
Author_Andrew Scull
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compelling
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history of psychiatry
impact of ideas and interventions
medicalization of mental illness
midcentury hegemony of psychoanalytic methods
psychiatry
recurring crises of legitimacy
rise of psychopharmacology
treatment of mental illness
vivid
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- ISBN 9780520383135
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jun 2021
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Andrew Scull is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is past president of the Society for the Social History of Medicine and the author of numerous books, including Madness in Civilization, Hysteria, and others.
