{"product_id":"discovering-the-history-of-psychiatry-9780195077391","title":"Discovering the History of Psychiatry","description":"\u003cp\u003ePsychiatry and psychology  including psychoanalysis  have exercised enormous cultural and scientific influence in our century  and an important part of the growth of these fields has been their attempt to construct accounts of their own disciplinary pasts. Yet these accounts  which form the collective memory of the psychiatric profession  have varied greatly. In fact  the history of psychiatry has emerged as one of the most rapidly-growing and controversy-ridden areas of commentary in recent years. This book brings together twenty studies by a cast of eminent authors--physicians  social scientists  and humanists from Europe and North America--who explore the many complex interpretive and ideological dimensions of history writing about the psychological sciences. It includes chapters on the history of the asylum  Freud biography  anti-psychiatry in the United States and abroad  feminist interpretations of psychiatrys past  and historical accounts of Nazism and psychotherapy  as well as discussions of many individual historical figures and movements. This book represents the first attempt to study comprehensively the multiple mythologies that have grown up around the history of madness and the origin  functions  and validity of these myths in our psychological century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652894777397,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195077393","price":132.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195077391.jpg?v=1781853147","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/discovering-the-history-of-psychiatry-9780195077391","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}