Desperate RemediesIn this acclaimed work, Andrew Scull, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry, sheds light on its troubled history. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of reason, cognition, and emotionthe sort of things that were once called 'madness'have been described and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, it is said, is an illness like any othera disorder that can be treated by doctors, whose suffering can be eased,