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100 _aHarrington, Anne
245 _aMind fixers : psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness /
_cHarrington, Anne
260 _aNew York :
_bW.W. Norton & Company,
_c©2019
300 _axviii, 366 pages :
_b illustrations ;
_c25 cm
520 _aIn Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth-century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists to insist, with some justification, that they had better ways of analyzing and fixing minds.
650 _aMental illness -- Physiological aspects.
650 _a Neuropsychiatry.
650 _aMental Disorders.
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999 _c1981
_d1981