Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Andrew Scull

Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness

Andrew Scull

352 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology dark informative medium-paced

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For more than two hundred years, disturbances of reason, cognition and emotion - the sort of things that were once called 'madness' - have been described and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, it is said, is an illness like any oth...

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