Discovering the History of Psychiatry

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Discovering the History of Psychiatry is written by Mark S. Micale and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195077393 (ISBN 10) and 9780195077391 (ISBN 13).

This book brings together leading international authorities - physicians, historians, social scientists, and others - who explore the many complex interpretive and ideological dimensions of historical writing about psychiatry. The book includes chapters on the history of the asylum, Freud, anti-psychiatry in the United States and abroad, feminist interpretations of psychiatry's past, and historical accounts of Nazism and psychotherapy, as well as discussions of many individual historical figures and movements. It represents the first attempt to study comprehensively the multiple mythologies that have grown up around the history of madness and the origin, functions, and validity of these myths in our psychological century.