Mind fixers : psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness
by Harrington, Anne, 1960- (Author)
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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... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Doctors' stories
- Betting on anatomy
- Biology in disarray
- A fragile Freudian triumph
- Crisis and revolt
- Disease stories
- Schizophrenia
- Depression
- Manic-depression
- Unfinished stories
- False dawn
- Afterthoughts.