A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of Asylum to the Age of Prozac.(Review)

Journal of Social History | December 22, 1998| | Copyright

By Edward Shorter (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997. xii plus 436pp.).

One can hardly pick up a publication that professes to address intellectual issues these days without being accosted by some discussion of the seemingly deserved demise of Sigmund Freud's ideas. Typical of this ongoing onslaught was last summer's New York Times Book Review essay, "Flogging Freud," that noted, "Freud has proved to be a great whipping boy for our time."(1) And while Edward Shorter's A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac offers a broader ...

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