{"product_id":"a-history-of-psychiatry","title":"A History of Psychiatry","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780471245315\u003cbr\u003eYear: 1998\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: John Wiley \u0026amp; Sons Inc (US)\u003cbr\u003ePages: 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\"PPPP . . . To compress 200 years of psychiatric theory and\u003cbr\u003epractice into a compelling and coherent narrative is a fine\u003cbr\u003eachievement . . . . What strikes the reader [most] are Shorter's\u003cbr\u003estorytelling skills, his ability to conjure up the personalities of\u003cbr\u003ethe psychiatrists who shaped the discipline and the conditions\u003cbr\u003eunder which they and their patients lived.\"--Ray Monk The Mail on\u003cbr\u003eSunday magazine, U.K.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An opinionated, anecdote-rich history. . . . While psychiatrists\u003cbr\u003emay quibble, and Freudians and other psychoanalysts will surely\u003cbr\u003esquawk, those without a vested interest will be thoroughly\u003cbr\u003eentertained and certainly enlightened.\"--Kirkus Reviews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Shorter tells his story with immense panache, narrative clarity,\u003cbr\u003eand genuinely deep erudition.\"--Roy Porter Wellcome Institute for\u003cbr\u003ethe History of Medicine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn A History of Psychiatry, Edward Shorter shows us the harsh,\u003cbr\u003efarcical, and inspiring realities of society's changing attitudes\u003cbr\u003etoward and attempts to deal with its mentally ill and the efforts\u003cbr\u003eof generations of scientists and physicians to ease their\u003cbr\u003esuffering. He paints vivid portraits of psychiatry's leading\u003cbr\u003ehistorical figures and pulls no punches in assessing their roles in\u003cbr\u003eadvancing or sidetracking our understanding of the origins of\u003cbr\u003emental illness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShorter also identifies the scientific and cultural factors that\u003cbr\u003eshaped the development of psychiatry. He reveals the forces behind\u003cbr\u003ethe unparalleled sophistication of psychiatry in Germany during the\u003cbr\u003eeighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as the emergence of the\u003cbr\u003eUnited States as the world capital of psychoanalysis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis engag","brand":"Smartfox Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41639590658181,"sku":"PR90019","price":120.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_STJVZUCFDU8N.jpg?v=1779345240","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/a-history-of-psychiatry","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}