Overview :Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critic... Read More
Overview :The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women--or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now? The very disease no longe... Read More
Overview :The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now? The very disease no long... Read More
Overview :Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts ... Read More
Overview :Madhouse reveals a long-suppressed medical scandal, shocking in its brutality and sobering in its implications. It shows how a leading Ameri... Read More
Overview :A Telegraph Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable WorkA Times Book of the YearA Hughes Award Finalist "An indisputable masterpiece...com... Read More
Overview :The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into ... Read More
Overview :The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil tha... Read More