Andrew Scull 
Psychiatry and Its Discontents [EPUB ebook] 

Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry,
Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull traces the rise of the field, the midcentury hegemony of psychoanalytic methods, and the paradigm’s decline with the ascendance of biological and pharmaceutical approaches to mental illness. The book’s historical sweep is broad, ranging from the age of the asylum to the rise of psychopharmacology and the dubious triumphs of ‘community care.’ The essays in
Psychiatry and Its Discontents provide a vivid and compelling portrait of the recurring crises of legitimacy experienced by ‘mad-doctors, ‘ as psychiatrists were once called, and illustrates the impact of psychiatry’s ideas and interventions on the lives of those afflicted with mental illness.

Table of Content

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments


1. Introduction: The Travails of Psychiatry


PART 1. The Asylum and Its Discontents

2. The Fictions of Foucault’s Scholarship: Madness and Civilization Revisited

3. The Asylum, the Hospital, and the Clinic

4. A Culture of Complaint: Psychiatry and Its Critics

5. Promises of Miracles: Religion as Science, and Science as Religion


PART 2. Whither Twentieth-Century Psychiatry?

6. Burying Freud

7. Psychobiology, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis: The Intersecting Careers of Adolf Meyer, Phyllis Greenacre, and Curt Richter

8. Mangling Memories

9. Creating a New Psychiatry: On the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rise of Academic Psychiatry


PART 3. Transformations and Interpretations

10. Shrinks: Doctor Pangloss

11. The Hunting of the Snark: The Search for a History of Neuropsychiatry

12. Contending Professions: Sciences of Brain and Mind in the United States, 1900–2013


PART 4. Neuroscience and the Biological Turn

13. Trauma

14. Empathy: Reading Other People’s Minds

15. Mind, Brain, Law, and Culture

16. Left Brain, Right Brain, One Brain, Two Brains

17. Delusions of Progress: Psychiatry’s Diagnostic Manual


Notes

Index

About the author

Andrew Scull is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is past president of the Society for the Social History of Medicine and the author of numerous books, including Madness in Civilization, Hysteria, and others.