Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness Written By Anne Harrington

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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 state of crisis that a new ?biological revolution? was meant to alleviate. Harrington shows how little that biological revolution had to do with breakthroughs in science, and why the field has fallen into a state of crisis in our own time.Mind Fixers makes clear that psychiatry?s waxing and waning biological enthusiasms have been shaped not just by developments in the clinic and lab, but also by a surprising range of social factors, including immigration, warfare, grassroots activism, and assumptions about race and gender. Government programs designed

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

Author : Anne Harrington

Pages : 384 pages

Publisher : W. W. Norton Company

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 0393071227

ISBN-13 : 9780393071221