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

By Elizabeth Lunbeck

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691025843

ISBN13:9780691025841

Release Date:December 1995

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:445 Pages

Weight:1.54 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Clinical Gender Studies Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting Internal Medicine Medical Medical Books Medicine Mental Illness Pathologies Politics & Social Sciences Psychiatry Psychology Psychology & Counseling Psychopathology Social Science Social Sciences

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