Author : S. D. Lamb
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421414843
Pathologist of the Mind by S. D. Lamb Pdf
Weaving together private correspondence and uniquely detailed case histories, the author examines Adolf Meyer's efforts to institute a clinical science of psychiatry in the United States—one that harmonized the expectations of scientific medicine with his concept of the person as a biological organism and mental illness as an adaptive failure.