Desperate remedies : psychiatry's turbulent quest to cure mental illness

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Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Part One | The Asylum Era 1. Mausoleums of the Mad 2. Disposing of Degenerates 3. Psychobiology 4. Freud Visits America 5. The Germ of Madness 6. Body and Mind 7. Shocking the Brain 8. The Checkered Career of Electroconvulsive Therapy 9. Brain Surgery 10. Selling Psychosurgery 11. The End of the Affair Part Two | Disturbed Minds 12. Creating a New Psychiatry 13. Talk Therapy 14. War 15. Professional Transformations 16. A Fragile Hegemony Part Three | A Psychiatric Revolution 17. The Birth of Psychopharmacology 18. Community Care 19. Diagnosing Mental Illness 20. The Complexities of Psychopharmacology 21. Genetics, Neuroscience, and Mental Illness 22. The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry Epilogue: Does Psychiatry Have a Future? Notes Acknowledgments Index