Desperate Remedies - Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

About the author

Andrew Scull is the author of Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine; Hysteria: The Disturbing History; Madness: A Very Short Introduction, and Psychiatry and Its Discontents, among other books. Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, he won the Roy Porter Medal for lifetime contribution to the history of medicine and the Eric Carlson award for lifetime contributions to the history of psychiatry. He has contributed to many documentaries, including PBS’s “Mysteries of Mental Illness” and “The Lobotomist,” has written for the The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Times Literary Supplement, Scientific American, and The Nation, and blogs for Psychology Today and Mad in America.

Product details

• Authors: Scull Andrew
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2024
• EAN: 9780674295513
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29551-3
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 462 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; MEDICAL / Mental Health, SCIENCE / History, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / History, Psychiatry, Popular psychology, Illness & addiction: social aspects, History of Science, Mental health services, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects