Book

Scull, Andrew, 1947- author.

Desperate remedies : psychiatry's turbulent quest to cure mental illness / Andrew Scull.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.

xviii, 494 pages ; 25 cm

In this "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. [His book] brings together a galaxy of mind doctors working in and out of institutional settings: physicians and psychoanalysts, psychologists, neuroscientists, and 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Mental illness -- Treatment -- United States -- History.

Psychiatry -- United States -- History.

Psychiatric ethics -- United States -- History.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The asylum era. Mausoleums of the mad ; Disposing of degenerates ; Psychobiology ; Freud visits America ; The germ of madness ; Body and mind ; Shocking the brain ; The checkered career of electroconvulsive therapy ; Brain surgery ; Selling psychosurgery ; The end of the affair -- Disturbed minds. Creating a new psychiatry ; Talk therapy ; War ; Professional transformations ; A fragile hegemony -- A psychiatric revolution. The birth of psychopharmacology ; Community care ; Diagnosing mental illness ; The complexities of psychopharmacology ; Genetics, neuroscience, and the origins of mental illness ; The crisis of contemporary psychiatry -- Does psychiatry have a future?

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