| Author/Contributor(s): | Lunbeck, E |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Date: | 01/11/1996 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
In the years between 1900 and 1930, American psychiatrists transformed their profession from a marginal science focused primarily on the care of the mentally ill into a powerful discipline concerned with analyzing the common difficulties of everyday life. How did psychiatrists effect such a dramatic change in their profession's fortunes and aims? Here, Elizabeth Lunbeck examines how psychiatry grew to take the whole world of human endeavor as its object.