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

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.

Author: E. Lunbeck
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 01/11/1996
Pages: 445
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.12w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780691025841

About the Author
Elizabeth Lunbeck is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University.