Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness

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ISBN-10: 0393358062
ISBN-13: 9780393358063
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 06/16/2020
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.40" W, 1.10" H

Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness

byAnne Harrington

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In Mind Fixers, “the preeminent historian of neuroscience” (Science magazine) Anne Harrington explores psychiatry’s repeatedly frustrated efforts to understand mental disorder. She shows that psychiatry’s waxing and waning theories have been shaped not just by developments in the clinic and lab, but also by a surprising range of social factors. Mind Fixers recounts the past and present struggle to make mental illness a biological problem in order to lay the groundwork for creating a better future.

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Anne Harrington masterfully chronicles the hopes–and the hype–surrounding psychiatry's much-heralded 'biological revolution' in this penetrating, capacious, and immensely engaging account.–Elizabeth Lunbeck, author of The Americanization of Narcissism
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Details

ISBN-10: 0393358062
ISBN-13: 9780393358063
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 06/16/2020
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.40" W, 1.10" H
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