Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
Anne Harrington examines psychiatry’s long search for biological explanations of mental illness. Mind Fixers explores the hopes and difficulties surrounding this pursuit, offering a thoughtful history of how psychiatry has tried to understand mental suffering through science and medicine.
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Mind Fixers examines psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness.
Anne Harrington explores the field’s efforts to explain psychological suffering through biological understanding.
The book considers the promise and difficulty of pursuing biological accounts of mental illness.
It offers a focused look at psychiatry, its history, and the questions that continue to shape the field.
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