Psychiatry and Its DiscontentsWritten by one of the worlds 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 paradigms decline with the ascendance of biological and pharmaceutical approaches to mental illness. The books historical sweep is