Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness

About this book

“Superb… a nuanced account of biological psychiatry.” —Richard J. McNally In Mind Fixers, “the preeminent historian of neuroscience” (Science magazine) Anne Harrington explores psychiatry’s repeatedly frustrated efforts to understand mental disorder. She shows that psychiatry’s waxing and waning theories have been shaped not just by developments in the clinic and lab, but also by a surprising range of social factors. Mind Fixers recounts the past and present struggle to make mental illness a biological problem in order to lay the groundwork for creating a better future.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780393358063

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published

June 16, 2020

Pages

384

Weight

10.4 oz

Subject

Psychology