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Title: A History of Psychiatry : From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac by Edward Shorter ISBN: 0-471-24531-3 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 20 February, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Psychiatric hagiography
Comment: This is an unbalanced, often inaccurate, and entirely adulatory history of psychiatry, masquerading as scholarship. Shorter finally lost me at the point where he describes ice-pick lobotomies, of which he is mildly diapproving, as an "adventure."
Rating: 2
Summary: Shorter's opinion on the history of psychiatry
Comment: I really enjoyed the part of this book on the history of psychiatry. Unfortunately only about 60% of the book is on this topic and the rest consists of Shorter's unbalanced opinions. As a Psychiartic Registrar/resident slightly more simpathetic to the Biological approach, even I found this book extremely biased. Shorter's concrete style of reasoning makes him far more suitable to write a book on the history of surgery. The finer nuances and richness of the field of psychiatry is clearly outside his grasp.
Rating: 3
Summary: Mind Medicine -- Psychic or Somatic
Comment: Shorter's book is an important addition to the history of psychiatry. It falls short because of Shorter's "over kill" in his polemic against psychoanalysis. The Freudian perspective needs thoughtful criticism, but Shorter's attacks become carping. Psychoanalysis has made important cultural contributions, and many people have received benefit from the analyst's couch. Good history should have a direction, even a perspective. But Shorter's history would have been better served with a calmer and more balanced voice.
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Title: Madness: A Brief History by Roy Porter ISBN: 0192802674 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Invisible Plague: The Rise of mental Illness from 1750 to the Present by E. Fuller Torrey, Judy Miller ISBN: 0813530032 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: 10 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and The Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker ISBN: 0738207993 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: A History of Clinical Psychiatry: The Origin and History of Psychiatric Disorders by German Berrios, Roy Porter ISBN: 0485242117 Publisher: Athlone Pr Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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Title: The Faber Book of Madness by Roy Porter ISBN: 0571143881 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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