Of Two Minds An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry

by LUHRMANN, T.M.

• ISBN13: 9780679744931
• ISBN10: 0679744932
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-14
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

With sharp and soulful insight, T. R. Luhrmann examines the world of psychiatry, a profession which today is facing some of its greatest challenges from within and without, as it continues to offer hope to many. At a time when mood-altering drugs have revolutionized the treatment of the mentally ill and HMO's are forcing caregivers to take the pharmocological route over the talking cure, Luhrmann places us at the heart of the matter and allows us to see exactly what is at stake. Based on extensive interviews with patients and doctors, as well as investigative fieldwork in residence programs, private psychiatric hospitals, and state hospitals, Luhrmann's groundbreaking book shows us how psychiatrists develop and how the enormous ambiguities in the field affect its practitioners and patients.

Author Biography

T.M. Luhrman is a professor in the Committee on Human Thought at the University of Chicago, and the author of two previous books<i>. </i>She lives in Solana Beach, Califiornia.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	xi
Introduction	3	(22)
What's Wrong with the Patient?	25	(59)
The Arrow of Harm	84	(35)
The Culture and Its Contradictions	119	(39)
The Psychiatric Scientist and the Psychoanalyst	158	(45)
Where the Split Came From	203	(36)
The Crisis of Managed Care	239	(27)
Madness and Moral Responsibility	266	(29)
Technical Appendix	295	(4)
Notes	299	(18)
Bibliography	317	(12)
Acknowledgments	329	(2)
Index	331