Mind Fixers
Subtitle: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; W.W. Norton & Company
Published: Apr 16, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780393071221
Description: In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth-century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists to insist, with some justification, that they had better ways of analyzing and fixing minds.
Notes: Source title: Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness