Mind Fixers

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In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth-century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists to insist, with some justification, that they had better ways of analyzing and fixing minds.

subjects: Internal medicine,  New York Times reviewed,  Mental health services,  Psychiatry,  Psychology, history,  Mental illness,  Physiological aspects,  Neuropsychiatry,  Mental Disorders,  Maladies mentales,  Aspect physiologique,  Neuropsychiatrie,  77.01 history of psychology,  PSYCHOLOGY / History,  MEDICAL / Mental Health,  MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General,  Psychische Störung,  Wahnsinn