The psychiatric persuasion : knowledge, gender, and power in modern America / Elizabeth Lunbeck.
The psychiatric persuasion : knowledge, gender, and power in modern America / Elizabeth Lunbeck.
By
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Lunbeck, Elizabeth.
Publication Date
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1994
Publication Information
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,
Physical Description
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xiv, 431 p. : ill.
Subject Term
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Psychiatry -- Philosophy -- History.
Psychoanalysis and culture.
Persuasive communication.
Gender identity.
Summary
:
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.
Language
:
English
ISBN
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9780691025841
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Placentia (APA) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 616.89 L97 | Checked In |
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