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

informative slow-paced

4.25

A really excellent look into the troubles that have plagued psychiatry over the past two centuries. I wouldn't recommend it as Baby's First Book on Psychiatry, but the terms themselves are not excessively jargony. Though sometimes the book's divisions seem a little arbitrary (not quite chronological, not quite by psychological area), it was nevertheless a fascinating look as to how the field developed and the faces behind it.