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Author Lunbeck, Elizabeth.

Title The psychiatric persuasion : knowledge, gender, and power in modern America / Elizabeth Lunbeck
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 431 pages) illustrations
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book
Contents Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: From Insanity to Normality -- One: Psychiatry between Old and New -- Two: Professing Gender -- Three: The Psychiatry of Everyday Life -- Part Two: Institutional Practices -- Four: Pathways to Psychiatric Scrutiny -- Five: Classification -- Six: Institutional Discipline -- Part Three: Psychopathologies of Everyday Life -- Seven: Woman as Hypersexual -- Eight: Hysteria: The Revolt of the "Good Girl -- Nine: Modern Manhood, Dissolute and Respectable -- Ten: The Sexual Politics of Marriage -- Eleven: Women, Alone and Together -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Boston State Hospital. Psychopathic Department -- History
SUBJECT Boston State Hospital. Psychopathic Department fast
Subject Psychiatry -- United States -- Philosophy -- History
Psychoanalysis and culture -- United States
PSYCHOLOGY / History
Psychiatry -- Philosophy
Psychoanalysis and culture
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0691048045
9780691048048
9780691025841
0691025843
9781400844036
1400844037