{"id":20158,"date":"2022-11-25T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T11:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=220209"},"modified":"2022-11-28T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T08:10:34","slug":"american-psychiatry-a-tortured-history","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/american-psychiatry-a-tortured-history\/","title":{"rendered":"American psychiatry: a tortured history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rhiannon Davies\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 25 November 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>From the earliest asylums that sold themselves as restorative \u201cretreats\u201d, to the damaging vogue for lobotomies and electric shock therapy, psychiatry in America has gone through many iterations since its origins in the 18th century. Andrew Scull, author of <em>Desperate Remedies<\/em>, speaks to Rhiannon Davies about the discipline\u2019s complex history.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-220209-2&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/americanpsychiatry-4fa2ea3.mp3?_=2&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/americanpsychiatry-4fa2ea3.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/americanpsychiatry-4fa2ea3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Scull is the author of <em>Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry\u2019s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness<\/em> (Belknap Press, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/desperate-remedies-psychiatry-s-turbulent-quest-to-cure-mental-illness-andrew-scull\/17506817&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&amp;xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDesperate-Remedies-Psychiatrys-Turbulent-Illness%2Fdp%2F0674265106%22%22%22&quot;\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/desperate-remedies\/andrew-scull\/9780241509241&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rhiannon Davies Published: Friday, 25 November 2022 at 12:00 am From the earliest asylums that sold themselves as restorative \u201cretreats\u201d, to the damaging vogue for lobotomies and electric shock therapy, psychiatry in America has gone through many iterations since its origins in the 18th century. 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