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Record Nr.

UNISA996248182503316

Autore

Lunbeck Elizabeth

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , 1994

©1994

ISBN

0-691-04804-5

1-4008-4403-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 431 p. )

Disciplina

616.8900973

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and culture

Psychiatry - Philosophy

Psychoanalysis and culture - United States

Psychiatry - United States - Philosophy

History

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Non definito

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-418) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: From Insanity to Normality -- One: Psychiatry between Old and New -- Two: Professing Gender -- Three: The Psychiatry of Everyday Life -- Part Two: Institutional Practices -- Four: Pathways to Psychiatric Scrutiny -- Five: Classification -- Six: Institutional Discipline -- Part Three: Psychopathologies of Everyday Life -- Seven: Woman as Hypersexual -- Eight: Hysteria: The Revolt of the "Good Girl -- Nine: Modern Manhood, Dissolute and Respectable -- Ten: The Sexual Politics of Marriage -- Eleven: Women, Alone and Together -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.