Anne Harrington – A New Vision for Mental Health

Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head

Author: Editorial 23rd May 2022 0 Comments

This review by Marco Ramos of two books – Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness and Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness – has been published in the Boston Review. It begins: “In 1990 President George Bush announced that ‘a new era of discovery’ was ‘dawning in brain research.’ Over the next several decades…
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Andrew Scull, Anne Harrington, books, Boston Review, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, history of psychiatry, Marco Ramos, Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness, psychiatry

The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine

Author: Editorial 31st July 2020 0 Comments

This book has been written by Prof. Anne Harrington (professor of the History of Science at Harvard University). The publishers say: “Is stress a deadly disease on the rise in modern society? Can mind-body practices from the East help us become…
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Anne Harrington, books, faith, history of medicine, meditation, mind-body connections, placebo effect, psychoanalysis, stress

Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness

Author: Editorial 27th June 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by Anne Harrington. The publishers say: “Anne Harrington explores psychiatry’s struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. Harrington shows how little the biological revolution had to do with breakthroughs in science and why the field…
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Anne Harrington, biomedical model, books, history of psychiatry, psychiatry, social influences