{"product_id":"desperate-remedies-psychiatrys-turbulent-quest-to-cure-mental-illness-9780674295513","title":"Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Work\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA Hughes Award Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An indisputable masterpiece...comprehensive, fascinating, and persuasive.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Brimming with wisdom and brio, this masterful work spans the history of psychiatry. Exceedingly well-researched, wide-ranging, provocative in its conclusions, and magically compact, it is riveting from start to finish. Mark my words, \u003ci\u003eDesperate Remedies\u003c\/i\u003e will soon be a classic.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Susannah Cahalan, author of \u003ci\u003eBrain on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Compulsively readable...Scull has joined his wide-ranging reporting and research with a humane perspective on matters that many of us continue to look away from.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Daphne Merkin, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Scull's fascinating and enraging book is the story of the quacks and opportunists who have claimed to offer cures for mental illness...Madness remains the most fascinating--arguably the defining--aspect of \u003ci\u003eHomo sapiens.\u003c\/i\u003e\" \u003cbr\u003e--Sebastian Faulks, \u003ci\u003e Sunday Times \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I would recommend this fascinating, alarming, and alerting book to anybody. For anyone referred to a psychiatrist it is surely essential.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than two hundred years disturbances of the mind have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, from which one can be cured. But is this true? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the birth of the asylum to the latest drug trials, \u003ci\u003eDesperate Remedies\u003c\/i\u003e brings together a galaxy of mind doctors working in and out of institutional settings: psychologists and psychoanalysts, neuroscientists and cognitive behavioral therapists, as well as patients and their families desperate for relief. Surprising, disturbing, and compelling, this passionate account of America's long battle with mental illness challenges us to revisit some of our deepest assumptions and to confront the epidemic of mental illness so visible all around us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Scull\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.75w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674295513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScull, Andrew:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Andrew Scull is the author of \u003ci\u003eMadness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine; Hysteria: The Disturbing History; Madness: A Very Short Introduction, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePsychiatry and Its Discontents, \u003c\/i\u003e among other books. Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, he won the Roy Porter Medal for lifetime contribution to the history of medicine and the Eric Carlson award for lifetime contributions to the history of psychiatry. He has contributed to many documentaries, including PBS's \"Mysteries of Mental Illness\" and \"The Lobotomist,\" has written for the \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Times Literary Supplement, Scientific American, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Nation, \u003c\/i\u003e and blogs for \u003ci\u003ePsychology Today\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMad in America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Belknap Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43778205089907,"sku":"9.78067E+12","price":21.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_e5de54e4-34d7-4fc4-a1f2-1864d87577ed.jpg?v=1757506529","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/desperate-remedies-psychiatrys-turbulent-quest-to-cure-mental-illness-9780674295513","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}