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A sweeping history of American psychiatry--from prisons to hospitals to the lab to the analyst's couch--by the award-winning author of Madness in Civilization. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind--the sorts of things that were once called "madness"--have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, whose origins can be identified and from which one can be cured. But is this true? In this masterful account of America's quest to understand and treat everything from anxiety to psychosis, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry today sheds light on its tumultuous past. Desperate Remedies brings together a galaxy of mind doctors working in and out of institutional settings: psychologists and psychoanalysts, neuroscientists, and cognitive behavioral therapists, social reformers and advocates of mental hygiene, as well as patients and their families desperate for relief. Andrew Scull begins with the birth of the asylum in the reformist zeal of the 1830s and carries us through to the latest drug trials and genetic studies. He carefully reconstructs the rise and fall of state-run men

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Author

Andrew T. Scull

Publisher

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674276475

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Medicine

Rating

4.6 / 5 (156 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14