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Desperate Remedies (book)

Have dominant paradigms failed psychiatry?

Altschuler: The rise of psychiatry, he reminds us, was linked to the emergence of asylums based on the premise that a carefully calibrated regimen could restore lunatics to sanity. By the end of the 19th century, however, therapeutically inclined institutions had become “mausoleums with a mad, captive population.” Read More ›