On the heels of ignorance :: psychiatry and the politics of not knowing /

The history of American psychiatry is a history of ignorance. Underlying psychiatry's repeated crises and its regular reincarnations, its faddish theories and epistemic somersaults, its egregious abuses and occasional achievements, is a stubborn inconvenient fact: the knowledge regarding the na...

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Main Author: Whooley, Owen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
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Online Access:DE-862
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Summary:The history of American psychiatry is a history of ignorance. Underlying psychiatry's repeated crises and its regular reincarnations, its faddish theories and epistemic somersaults, its egregious abuses and occasional achievements, is a stubborn inconvenient fact: the knowledge regarding the nature of mental distress remains elusive. Charged with imposing reason on madness, psychiatrists have conducted fruitless attempts to comprehend the essential character and mechanisms of mental illness. Madness evades understanding. Nevertheless, psychiatry endures. On the 'Heels of Ignorance' tells the story of psychiatry's unlikely resilience.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 volume)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226616414
022661641X

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