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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Harrington, Anne, 1960-     Subjects     Mental illness -- Physiological aspects.     Neuropsychiatry.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Harrington, Anne, 1960-       by title:      Mind fixers : psychi...       by call number:      616.89 H299m     Search the Web     Harrington, Anne, 1960-     Mental illness -- Physiological aspects.     Neuropsychiatry.       MARC Display

Mind fixers : psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness / Anne Harrington. by Harrington, Anne, 1960- W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. Call #: 616.89 H299m Subjects Mental illness -- Physiological aspects.   Neuropsychiatry. ISBN:  9780393071221 (hc.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xviii, 366 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Doctors' stories -- Betting on anatomy -- Biology in disarray -- A fragile freudian triumph -- Crisis and revolt -- Disease stories -- Schizophrenia -- Depression -- Manic-depression -- Unfinished stories -- False dawn -- Afterthoughts -- Notes -- Guide to further reading -- Index. Summary:  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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Adult Nonfiction 616.89 H299m Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Nonfiction 616.89 H299m Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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