Scull, Andrew
Psychiatry and Its Discontents
- ISBN 13:
- 9780520305496
- author:
- Scull, Andrew
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- University of California Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 376
- Dimensions:
- 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Psychology, History,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Andrew Scull's Psychiatry and Its Discontents offers a comprehensive and critical history of psychiatry, tracing its development from the age of the asylum to the rise of psychopharmacology. This broad-ranging study explores the profession's recurring crises of legitimacy and its impact on those affected by mental illness.
The book examines the midcentury hegemony of psychoanalytic methods and their decline with the ascendance of biological and pharmaceutical approaches to mental illness. Scull provides a vivid portrait of the challenges faced by psychiatrists, known as "mad-doctors," and illustrates the lasting effects of psychiatric ideas and interventions on individuals' lives.
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