E. Lunbeck

The Psychiatric Persuasion

Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9780691025841
• ISBN-10: 0691025843
• Artikelnr.: 21284894

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Lunbeck is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
3
1
Psychiatry between Old and New
11
2
Professing Gender
25
3
The Psychiatry of Everyday Life
46
4
Pathways to Psychiatric Scrutiny
81
5
Classification
114
6
Institutional Discipline
152
7
Woman as Hypersexual
185
8
Hysteria: The Revolt of the "Good Girl"
209
9
Modern Manhood, Dissolute and Respectable
229
10
The Sexual Politics of Marriage
256
11
Women Alone and Together
293
Conclusion
306
Appendix
311
Note on Sources
325
Notes
327
Index
419

Rezensionen

[With] the tools of a historian and the skills of a talented writer, [Lunbeck] . . . uses a social context to examine how psychiatrists viewed society and how society shaped the development of psychiatric thought. . . . Her book will be of interest to students and professionals in the field of mental health, as well as to historians, sociologists, and general readers interested in the early 20th century in America. . . . highly readable, informative, and even picturesque in its evocations.