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Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Andrew Scull
31.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
In this acclaimed work, Andrew Scull, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry, sheds light on its troubled history. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of reason, cognition and emotion - the sort of things that were once called 'madness' - have been described and treated ...Show more
Madness by Andrew Scull
20.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. Through the centuries, in poetry and in prose, in drama and in the visual arts, its depredations are on display for all to see. A whole ind ...Show more
Madness In Civilization by Andrew Scull
65.00 NZD
Category: Health
This hugely ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. In twelve chapters organized chronologically from the Bible to Freud, from exorcis ...Show more
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