The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America

By Elizabeth Lunbeck

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691048045
• ISBN13: 9780691048048
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.8" x 6.5"