A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac Book

The history of madness and its treatment is a fascinating one. At one time, the mentally ill were diagnosed as demonically possessed; later, when mental illness became the province of psychoanalysts, those conditions that are actually physical in nature, such as schizophrenia or manic depression, went insufficiently treated, their sufferers consigned to asylums. In his book, A History of Psychiatry, Edward Shorter, a medical historian at the University of Toronto, presents a concise chronology of mental illness and its treatment. Shorter favors a biological understanding of these disorders, concentrating on medical approaches to helping the seriously mentally ill.Read More

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    There is growing public interest in the uses and abuses of medicine in general and psychiatry in particular, and intense debate about whether mental illness is social or organic in origin. In this comprehensive history of psychiatry, historian Edward Shorter examines the evolution of psychiatric theory and practice from the 18th century to the present. It covers the latest developments in the field, it proposes a return to "biological" roots and treatments of mental illness as opposed to the theory of mental illness being of social origin. It further describes the shift away from Freudian-based analysis towards a new era of possibilities of diagnosis and treatment using medication such as Prozac to treat a variety of disorders.

  • 047115749X
  • 9780471157496
  • Edward Shorter
  • 23 January 1997
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 448
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