I hope your Charting The Century Series will request writing stylization with less hyperbolic statements than your editors accepted from Professor Shorter.
Readers deserve more than such highly biased opinions.
In this regard, I am not unusual. Shorter's article fails to credit psychoanalysts with keeping even somewhat up with significant advances in biological aspects of patient care. Yet, I do understand that the flogging of Freud and of psychoanalysis is also among the current eye catching journalistic trends in the march of time. Professor Shorter depicted a mortal death battle between the biological and the biopsychosocial models involving the treatment of mental illness. It is true that there have been struggles between the two perspectives, but differences in presence and prominence are not the same as an absence or a death.