Desperate Remedies

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Desperate Remedies is written by Andrew Scull and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674276469 (ISBN 10) and 9780674276468 (ISBN 13).

From jails to hospitals to the analyst’s couch, the venues of psychiatry have shifted amid debate over the nature of mental illness: is it psychosocial or biological? Andrew Scull follows the path from the asylum to the street, from shock therapies to talk therapy, and on to psychiatry’s dependence on drugs, whose side effects are often ignored.