Robin Musselman wrote: > For those interested in a bit of history: > > Diseases of the Mind: Highlights of American Psychiatry through 1900 > http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/diseases/ > > This is indeed a very interesting site, though not entirely for the reasons its authors intended. On the one hand, it has some interesting information. One the other, it is conceived and designed in an astonishingly old-fashioned way: great advances, great advocates, great discoveries. No blunders, no crises, no less-than-scrupulous characters, no unpalatable assumptions about race, sex, immigration, etc. Just the Great March Forward. In many ways, it tells us more about the ways psychiatrists would like their profession to be seen by the public, than about the history of psychiatry itself.
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