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

Lunbeck, E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691048045 ISBN 13 : 9780691048048

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1994

Synopsis

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 powerful discipline concerned with analyzing the common difficulties of everyday life. How did psychiatrists effect such a dramatic change in their profession's fortunes and aims? This study focuses on the revelatory ideas of gender that structured the new "psychiatry of the normal," a field that grew to take the whole world of human endeavour as its object. The author locates her study in early 20th-century Boston, providing a vivid picture not only of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, upon whose patient records she has drawn extensively, but also of the increasingly urbanized society that shaped its goals and practices. As she tells a variety of stories about individual patients, psychiatrists and social workers, Lunbeck shows that early 20th-century Boston offered psychiatrists a vast reservoir of material with which to work. Psychiatrists made strenuous attempts to deal with the treatment of syphilis and with other newly urgent social issues, such as immigration, poverty, delinquency and drunkenness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth Lunbeck is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691048045
• ISBN 13: 9780691048048
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 456
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