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'PPPP... To compress 200 years of psychiatric theory and practice into a compelling and coherent narrative is a fine achievement.... What strikes the reader [most] are Shorter's storytelling skills, his ability to conjure up the personalities of the psychiatrists who shaped the discipline and the conditions under which they and their patients lived.'--Ray Monk The Mail on Sunday magazine, U.K.'An opinionated, anecdote-rich history.... While psychiatrists may quibble, and Freudians and other psychoanalysts will surely squawk, those without a vested interest will be thoroughly entertained and certainly enlightened.'--Kirkus Reviews.'Shorter tells his story with immense panache, narrative clarity, and genuinely deep erudition.'--Roy Porter Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. In A History of Psychiatry, Edward Shorter shows us the harsh, farcical, and inspiring realities of society's changing attitudes toward and attempts to deal with its mentally ill and the efforts of generations of scientists and physicians to ease their suffering. He paints vivid portraits of psychiatry's leading historical figures and pulls no punches in assessing their roles in advancing or sidetracki
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- Author
- Shorter, Edward.,John Wiley & Sons
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780471157496
- Category
- health
- Subjects
- Medical, Science, History
- Rating
- 3.75 / 5 (160 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14