With every passing year, the mutual mistrust between doctor and patient widens, as doctors retrea...

Psychotic depression is a distinct and acute clinical condition along the spectrum of depressive ...

What has been the source of women's oppression by men? Shorter argues that women were victimized ...

The first book to put the physical symptoms of stress in their historical andcultural context, Sh...

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What are the real disease entities in psychiatry? This is a question that has bedeviled the study...

The Age of Psychopharmacology began with a brilliant rise in the 1950s, when for the first time s...

Psychotic depression is a distinct and acute clinical condition along the spectrum of depressive ...

Choice Recommended ReadWhat Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today c...

The riddle of melancholia has stumped generations of doctors. It is a serious depressive illness ...

In this volume, Shorter presents a revealing account of why psychiatry is 'losing ground' in the ...

This book describes how women's physical experience historically has affected the whole constella...