The psychiatric persuasion : knowledge, gender, and power in modern America / Elizabeth Lunbeck.
TITLE:
The psychiatric persuasion : knowledge, gender, and power in modern America / Elizabeth Lunbeck.
Publication Date:
1994
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,
Physical Description:
xiv, 431 p. : ill.
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:
9780691025841
