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Mind fixers : psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness

Author:Anne Harrington (Author)

Summary: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 some justification, that they had better ways of analyzing and fixing minds

eBook, English, 2019

Edition:First edition View all formats and editions

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2019

Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 366 pages) : illustrations

ISBN:

9781324001973, 1324001976

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1097596378

Subjects:

Maladies mentales Aspect physiologique

Mental illness Physiological aspects

Neuropsychiatrie

Neuropsychiatry

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Print version:

Harrington, Anne, 1960-

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

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