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Plot summary. In Desperate Remedies a young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry. Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but Miss Adclyffe's machinations, the discovery that Edward is ...
- Thomas Hardy Hardy
- 1871
A comprehensive and critical account of the development and failures of psychiatry in the US since 1820. Scull exposes the abuses, quackery, and controversies that have shaped the treatment of mental illness and challenges the dominance of biological approaches.
Desperate Remedies brings together a galaxy of mind doctors working in and out of institutional settings: psychologists and psychoanalysts, neuroscientists, and cognitive behavioral therapists, social reformers and advocates of mental hygiene, as well as patients and their families desperate for relief.
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by sociologist Andrew Scull is a critical history of two hundred years of treatment of mental disorders in the United States.
17 de mai. de 2022 · Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness. Andrew Scull. Harvard University Press, May 17, 2022 - Medical - 496 pages. A Telegraph Book of the YearA Washington...
1 de dez. de 2022 · Home. Journal of Medical Humanities. Article. Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness, by Andrew Scull. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022. Published: 01 December 2022. Volume 44 , pages 125–127, ( 2023 ) Cite this article. Download PDF. Guy Fredrick Glass. 281 Accesses.
Deeply researched and lucidly conveyed, Desperate Remedies masterfully illustrates the assumptions and theory behind the therapy, providing a definitive new account of psychiatry's and society's battle with mental illness.
