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

ISBN-13: 9780691025841 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 445 str.

Elizabeth Lunbeck

Opis

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.