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

About the author

Elizabeth Lunbeck

Summary

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 discipline concerned with analyzing the common difficulties of everyday life. This work examines how psychiatry grew to take the whole world of human endeavor as its object.

Product details

• Authors: E. Lunbeck
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.1996
• EAN: 9780691025841
• ISBN: 978-0-691-02584-1
• No. of pages: 456
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 735 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, Psychiatry, History of Medicine, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Gender studies, gender groups, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)