Table of Contents

The Birth of Psychiatry; The Asylum Era; The First Biological Psychiatry; Nerves; The Psychoanalytic Hiatus; Alternatives; The Second Biological Psychiatry; From Freud to Prozac; Notes; Index.

About the Author

EDWARD SHORTER is Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is the author of more than ten books, including the widely acclaimed The Making of the Modern Family.