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

• Autore: Lunbeck Elizabeth
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , 1994; ©1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 431 p. )
• Disciplina: 616.8900973
• Soggetto topico: Psychoanalysis and culture; Psychiatry - Philosophy; Psychoanalysis and culture - United States; Psychiatry - United States - Philosophy
• Soggetto geografico: United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Soggetto non controllato: Adler, Herman; Aristotelian system; Boston Children’s Aid Society; Boston Public Library; Canavan, Myrtelle; Curtis, Frances G.; Dickens, Charles; Ellis, Havelock; Flexner Report; Friedan, Betty; Gervais, Harriet; Girls’ Parole Department; Griesinger, Wilhelm; Hale, Dorothy; Healy, William; Hereditary Genius (Galton); Hofstadter, Richard; House of Correction; James, William; Johnson, Virginia E.; Kelvin dictum; Kinsey, Alfred; Kraepelin, Emil; Mitchell, Juliet; Münsterberg, Hugo; Noyes, Alfred P.; Pappenheim, Bertha; abortion; antipsychiatry; birth control, in marriage; clinics, psychiatric; coitus interruptus; contraception, in marriage; delirium tremens, treatment for; democracy, of science; divorce, marital conflict and; documentation, case; drugs, psychiatric treatment and; efficiency graph; experience, science vs; family metaphor, of asylums; forensics, diagnosis and; genealogy; hydrotherapy; imbeciles, defined; inhibitions, eroticism and; jealousy: between girls; litigation psychosis; lumbar puncture; measurement, of normality; menstruation, hysteria and; nagging, of women; orgasm: mutual
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The psychiatric persuasion
• ISBN: 0-691-04804-5; 1-4008-4403-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Non definito
• Record Nr.: 996248182503316
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