A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac

Edward Shorter writes in this 1998 book: * For historians of psychiatry who wrote 30 or 40 years ago—the last time anyone attempted an overview of the discipline—the story seemed relatively straightforward. First there were those wicked biological psychiatrists in … Continue reading A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac