The Psychiatric Persuasion : Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America
by
E. Lunbeck
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0691025843
ISBN-13
9780691025841
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Imprint
Princeton University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 11th, 1996
Print length
445 Pages
Weight
652 grams
Product Classification:
Social & cultural historyGender studies, gender groupsHistory of medicinePsychiatry
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In the years between 1900 and 1930, American psychiatrists transformed their profession from a marginal science focused primarily on the care of the mentally ill into a discipline concerned with analyzing the common difficulties of everyday life. This work examines how psychiatry grew to take the whole world of human endeavor as its object.
In the years between 1900 and 1930, American psychiatrists transformed their profession from a marginal science focused primarily on the care of the mentally ill into a powerful discipline concerned with analyzing the common difficulties of everyday life. How did psychiatrists effect such a dramatic change in their profession''s fortunes and aims? Here, Elizabeth Lunbeck examines how psychiatry grew to take the whole world of human endeavor as its object.
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