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"An indisputable masterpieceā¦comprehensive, fascinating, and persuasive."
āWall Street Journal
"Brimming with wisdom and brio, this masterful work spans the history of psychiatry. Exceedingly well-researched, wide-ranging, provocative in its conclusions, and magically compact, it is riveting from start to finish. Mark my words, Desperate Remedies will soon be a classic."
āSusannah Cahalan, author of Brain on Fire
"Compulsively readableā¦Scull has joined his wide-ranging reporting and research with a humane perspective on matters that many of us continue to look away from."
āDaphne Merkin, The Atlantic
"Scull's fascinating and enraging book is the story of the quacks and opportunists who have claimed to offer cures for mental illness...Madness remains the most fascinatingāarguably the definingāaspect of Homo sapiens."
āSebastian Faulks, Sunday Times
"I would recommend this fascinating, alarming, and alerting book to anybody. For anyone referred to a psychiatrist it is surely essential."
āThe Spectator
For more than two hundred years disturbances of the mind have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, from which one can be cured. But is this true?
From the birth of the asylum to the latest drug trials, Desperate Remedies brings together a galaxy of mind doctors working in and out of institutional settings: psychologists and psychoanalysts, neuroscientists and cognitive behavioral therapists, as well as patients and their families desperate for relief. Surprising, disturbing, and compelling, this passionate account of America's long battle with mental illness challenges us to revisit some of our deepest assumptions and to confront the epidemic of mental illness so visible all around us.
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Topic
MedicineSubtopic
Psychiatry & Mental HealthTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One | The Asylum Era
- Part Two | Disturbed Minds
- Part Three | A Psychiatric Revolution
- Epilogue: Does Psychiatry Have a Future?
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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