Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by Andrew Scull

Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

Andrew Scull with Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)

18 hours, 9 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction health historical psychology dark informative medium-paced
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 For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind-the sorts of things that were once called "madness"-have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, whose origins can be ...

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