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Mind Fixers
Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
Anne Harrington
2020
W. W. Norton & Co.
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Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head
Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.
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The Troubled History of Psychiatry
Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself. What, exactly, constitutes a mental disorder?
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Jerome Groopman
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May 20, 2019
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On Early 20th-Century America’s Unhealthy Fixation with ‘Hygiene’
Junk Science, paternalism, and a misplaced faith in 'expertise.'
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Anne Harrington
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April 25, 2019