Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America

Name: Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America
SKU: INR-9780691025841
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SKU: INR-9780691025841 Category: All Books Tags: Psychology, Social Science, General, Psychopathology, History, Ingram, Psychiatric Hospitals, Gender Studies, Medical Sciences

Description

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.

Author: Lunbeck, E

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 691025843
Language: English
Pages: 456