THE PSYCHIATRIC PERSUASION by Elizabeth Lunbeck ( 9780691025841 )

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Title:

THE PSYCHIATRIC PERSUASION
KNOWLEDGE, GENDER, AND POWER IN MODERN AMERICA

By:

Elizabeth Lunbeck

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0691025843

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9780691025841

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Publisher:

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 December, 1995

Pages:

445

Description:

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 discipline concerned with analyzing the common difficulties of everyday life. This work examines how psychiatry grew to take the whole world of human endeavor as its object.

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

13 halftones, 3 figures, 4 tables

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Imprint:

Princeton University Press

Prizes:

Winner of Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best book in intellectual Winner of John Hope Franklin Publication Prize of the American Studies Winner of History of Women in Science Prize of the History of Science

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