The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America by Elizabeth Lunbeck

The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America

Elizabeth Lunbeck

456 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced

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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 everyd...

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