Desperate Remedies by Andrew Scull
Desperate Remedies by Andrew Scull
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Desperate Remedies

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: Abnormal psychology
  • Genre / subject: History of science
  • Author: Andrew Scull
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

Desperate Remedies by Andrew Scull is a history of science book for adult readers.

In this acclaimed work, Andrew Scull, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry, sheds light on its troubled history For more than two hundred years, disturbances of reason, cognition and emotion - the sort of things that were once called 'madness' - have been described and treated by the medical profession.

Mental illness, it is said, is an illness like any other - a disorder that can be treated by doctors, whose suffering can be eased, and from which patients can return. And yet serious mental illness remains a profound mystery that is in some ways no closer to being solved than it was at the start of the twentieth century.

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