Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the travails of psychiatry
  • The fictions of Foucault's scholarship : madness and civilization revisited
  • The asylum, the hospital, and the clinic
  • A culture of complaint
  • Promises of miracles : religion as science and science as religion
  • Burying Freud
  • Psychobiology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis : the intersecting careers of Adolf Meyer, Phyllis Greenacre, and Curt Richter
  • Mangling memories
  • A new psychiatry : The Rockefeller Foundation and the rise of academic psychiatry
  • Shrinks : Dr. Pangloss
  • The hunting of the snark : the search for a history of neuropsychiatry
  • Contending professions : sciences of brain and mind in the United States, 1850-2013
  • Trauma
  • Empathy : reading other people's minds
  • Mind, brain, law, and culture
  • Left brain, right brain : one brain, two brains
  • Delusions of progress : psychiatry's diagnostic manual