{"product_id":"a-history-of-psychiatry-isbn-9780471245315","title":"A History of Psychiatry","description":"\"PPPP . . . To compress 200 years of psychiatric theory and practice into a compelling and coherent narrative is a fine achievement . . . . What strikes the reader [most] are Shorter's storytelling skills, his ability to conjure up the personalities of the psychiatrists who shaped the discipline and the conditions under which they and their patients lived.\"--Ray Monk The Mail on Sunday magazine, U.K.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An opinionated, anecdote-rich history. . . . While psychiatrists may quibble, and Freudians and other psychoanalysts will surely squawk, those without a vested interest will be thoroughly entertained and certainly enlightened.\"--Kirkus Reviews.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Shorter tells his story with immense panache, narrative clarity, and genuinely deep erudition.\"--Roy Porter Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In A History of Psychiatry, Edward Shorter shows us the harsh, farcical, and inspiring realities of society's changing attitudes toward and attempts to deal with its mentally ill and the efforts of generations of scientists and physicians to ease their suffering. He paints vivid portraits of psychiatry's leading historical figures and pulls no punches in assessing their roles in advancing or sidetracking our understanding of the origins of mental illness.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Shorter also identifies the scientific and cultural factors that shaped the development of psychiatry. He reveals the forces behind the unparalleled sophistication of psychiatry in Germany during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as the emergence of the United States as the world capital of psychoanalysis.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This engagingly written, thoroughly researched, and fiercely partisan account is compelling reading for anyone with a personal, intellectual, or professional interest in psychiatry. \u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Birth of Psychiatry vii\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA World without Psychiatry 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditional Asylums 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeralding the Therapeutic Asylum 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganizing the Therapeutic Asylum 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNervous Illness and Nonpsychiatrists 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToward a Biological Psychiatry 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRomantic Psychiatry 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Asylum Era 33  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNational Traditions 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pressure of Numbers 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy the Increase? 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRedistribution of Illness 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRising Rate of Psychiatric Illness 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDead End 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The First Biological Psychiatry 69   \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnter Ideas 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA German Century 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrench Disasters 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnglo-Saxon Laggards 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDegeneration 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe End of the First Biological Psychiatry 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn American Postscript 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Nerves 113   \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNerves Better than Madness 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Flight of Madness into the Spa 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTired Nerves and the Rest Cure 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeurology Discovers Psychotherapy      136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Psychoanalytic Hiatus 145        \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFreud and His Circle 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Battle Begins 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Origins 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Arrival of the Europeans 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTriumph 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePsychoanalysis and the American Jews 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Alternatives 190       \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFever Cure and Neurosyphilis 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Drugs 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProlonged Sleep 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShock and Coma 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElectroshock 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lobotomy Adventure 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial and Community Psychiatry 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 The Second Biological Psychiatry 239          \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Genetic Strand 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe First Drug That Worked 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cornucopia 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeuroscience 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAntipsychiatry 272\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReturn to “the Community” 277\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Battle over ECT 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 From Freud to Prozac 288   \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaintaining Market Share 289\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Nation Hungers for Psychotherapy 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScience versus Fashion in Diagnosis 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Decline of Psychoanalysis  305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCosmetic Psychopharmacology 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Psychiatry? 325\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 329                   \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 421        \u003c\/p\u003e EDWARD SHORTER, PhD, is Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is the author of ten books, including the international bestseller The Making of the Modern Family and a two-volume history of psychosomatic illness.  \"PPPP . . . To compress 200 years of psychiatric theory and practice into a compelling and coherent narrative is a fine achievement . . . . What strikes the reader [most] are Shorter's storytelling skills, his ability to conjure up the personalities of the psychiatrists who shaped the discipline and the conditions under which they and their patients lived.\"—Ray Monk The Mail on Sunday magazine, U.K.  \u003cp\u003e\"An opinionated, anecdote-rich history. . . . While psychiatrists may quibble, and Freudians and other psychoanalysts will surely squawk, those without a vested interest will be thoroughly entertained and certainly enlightened.\"—Kirkus Reviews.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Shorter tells his story with immense panache, narrative clarity, and genuinely deep erudition.\"—Roy Porter Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn A History of Psychiatry, Edward Shorter shows us the harsh, farcical, and inspiring realities of society's changing attitudes toward and attempts to deal with its mentally ill and the efforts of generations of scientists and physicians to ease their suffering. 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