Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

“Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine, and Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness. Andrew Skull has spent decades studying how societies have understood madness, how psychiatry rose to authority, and how often that authority was used with false confidence and catastrophic consequences.”

“So when I first conceived the idea of writing Desperate Remedies, the book, it was back in 1981. And I was in London on a Guggenheim Fellowship at the Wellcome Institute.”