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Author Lunbeck, Elizabeth.

Title The psychiatric persuasion : knowledge, gender, and power in modern America / Elizabeth Lunbeck.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1994]
©1994

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  616.89 L961P    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 431 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents pt. 1. From insanity to normality : Psychiatry between old and new ; Professing gender ; The psychiatry of everyday life -- pt. 2. Institutional practices : Pathways to psychiatric scrutiny ; Classification ; Institutional discipline -- pt. 3. Psychopathologies of everyday life : Woman as hypersexual ; Hysteria : the revolt of the "good girl" ; Modern manhood, dissolute and respectable ; The sexual politics of marriage ; Women, alone and together.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-418) and index.
Subject Boston State Hospital. Psychopathic Department -- History.
Psychiatry -- United States -- Philosophy -- History.
Psychoanalysis and culture -- United States.
ISBN 0691048045 (cl : acid-free paper) : $29.95
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