Título:
Shrinks : the untold story of psychiatry / Jeffrey A. Lieberman ; with Ogi Ogas.
ISBN:
9780316278867
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Edición:
First edition.
Información de publicación:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Descripción física:
viii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contenido:
Introduction: What's wrong with Elena? -- Part I: The story of diagnosis. The stepchild of medicine : mesmerists, alienists, and analysts ; Down the garden path : the rise of the shrink ; What is mental illness? : a farrago of diagnoses ; Destroying the Rembrandts, Goyas, and Van Goghs : anti-Freudians to the rescue -- Part II: The story of treatment. Desperate measures : fever cures, coma therapy, and lobotomies ; Mother's little helper: medicine at last -- Part III: Psychiatry reborn. Out of the wilderness : the brain revolution ; Soldier's heart : the mystery of trauma ; The triumph of pluralism : the DSM-5 ; The end of stigma : the future of psychiatry.
Síntesis:
Dr. Lieberman traces the field of psychiatry from its birth as a mystic pseudo-science through its adolescence as a cult of "shrinks" to its late blooming maturity--beginning after World War II--as a science-driven profession that saves lives. It's a history full of fanciful theories--from Franz Mesmer's nineteenth-century notion of "animal magnetism" to the classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder as late as the 1970s--and reckless treatments, including "coma therapies" and ice-pick lobotomies.--From publisher description.
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DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
ocn903673199
Disponibilidad:
Eagan - Wescott~1
