Ophir, Orna.,

Psychosis, psychoanalysis and psychiatry in postwar USA : on the borderland of madness / Orna Ophir. - 1 online resource (xii, 196 pages) - International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis book series . - International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis book series. .

"First published in Hebrew as On the borderland of madness : psychoanalysis, psychiatry and psychosis in postwar USA, 2013 by Resling"--t.p. verso. "Published for the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis"--cover.

1. Freud's dual view of schizophrenia (1894-1940) -- 2. Ravens in white coats : the medicalization of American psychoanalysis (1909-1954) -- 3. Psychoanalysis, psychopharmacology, and community psychiatry (1954-1970) -- 4. The "dopamine hypothesis" and evidence of genetic factors in schizophrenia (1971-1980) -- 5. The emperor's new clothes : DSM-III and the abandonment of psychodynamics in favor of the biomedical model (1980-1990) -- 6. The last battle of psychoanalysis? The decade of the brain (1990-2000) -- 7. The many faces of schreber as the face of American psychoanalysis (1954-2000).

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