Mind fixers: psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness

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,...

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1. Verfasser: Harrington, Anne 1960- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York W.W. Norton & Company [2019]
Ausgabe:First Edition
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:xviii, 366 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:9780393071221

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