The psychiatric persuasion : knowledge, gender, and power in modern America
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The psychiatric persuasion : knowledge, gender, and power in modern America
（Princeton paperbacks）
Princeton University Press, 1995, c1994
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Includes bibliographical notes (p. [325]-418) and index
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Description
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? Here, Elizabeth Lunbeck examines how psychiatry grew to take the whole world of human endeavor as its object.
Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction31Psychiatry between Old and New112Professing Gender253The Psychiatry of Everyday Life464Pathways to Psychiatric Scrutiny815Classification1146Institutional Discipline1527Woman as Hypersexual1858Hysteria: The Revolt of the "Good Girl"2099Modern Manhood, Dissolute and Respectable22910The Sexual Politics of Marriage25611Women Alone and Together293Conclusion306Appendix311Note on Sources325Notes327Index419
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