vbid/9781400844036

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Author(s): E. Lunbeck
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691025841
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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.Typham this is the title: The Psychiatric Persuasion Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America

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