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

Harrington, Anne 1960- (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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780393071221
ISBN: 0393071227
Physical Description: print
xviii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-344) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.