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, with some justification, that they had better ways of analysing 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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-07122-1
- EAN: 9780393071221
- Produktnummer: 27556627
- Verlag: WW Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H16.3 cm x B24.1 cm x D3.5 cm 618 g
- Gewicht: 618
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Anne Harrington is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science and faculty dean of Pforzheimer House at Harvard University. She is the author of four books, including Mind Fixers and The Cure Within. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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