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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Psychiatry and Its Discontents
Description: Written by one of the worldâs most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull traces the rise of the field, the midcentury hegemony of psychoanalytic methods, and the paradigmâs decline with the ascendance of biological and pharmaceutical approaches to mental illness.Scull's historical sweep is broad, ranging from the age of the asylum to the rise of psychopharmacology and the dubious triumphs of âcommunity care.â The essays in Psychiatry and Its Discontents provide a vivid and compelling p...