The Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner: Stories from Three Revolutionary Eras of the Mind

by David Hellerstein

Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Over the past several decades, psychiatry has undergone radical changes. After its midcentury heyday, psychoanalysis gave way to a worldview guided by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which precisely defined mental disorders and their treatments; more recently, this too has been displaced by a model inspired by neuroscience. Each of these three dominant models overturned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231207921
• ISBN13: 9780231207928
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"