Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. 1. Introduction: The Travails of Psychiatry 1
6. PART I. The Asylum and Its Discontents
7. 2. The Fictions of Foucault’s Scholarship: Madness and Civilization Revisited 27
8. 3. The Asylum, the Hospital, and the Clinic 38
9. 4. A Culture of Complaint: Psychiatry and Its Critics 54
10. 5. Promises of Miracles: Religion as Science, and Science as Religion 73
11. PART II. Whither Twentieth-Century Psychiatry?
12. 6. Burying Freud 81
13. 7. Psychobiology, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis: The Intersecting Careers of Adolf Meyer, Phyllis Greenacre, and Curt Richter 95
14. 8. Mangling Memories 134
15. 9. Creating a New Psychiatry: On the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rise of Academic Psychiatry 142
16. PART III. Transformations and Interpretations
17. 10. Shrinks: Doctor Pangloss 169
18. 11. The Hunting of the Snark: The Search for a History of Neuropsychiatry 178
19. 12. Contending Professions: Sciences of the Brain and Mind in the United States, 1900–2013 185
20. PART IV. Neuroscience and the Biological Turn
21. 13. Trauma 217
22. 14. Empathy: Reading Other People’s Minds 230
23. 15. Mind, Brain, Law, and Culture 246
24. 16. Left Brain, Right Brain, One Brain, Two Brains 261
25. 17. Delusions of Progress: Psychiatry’s Diagnostic Manual 270
26. Notes 299
27. Index 347