On the Heels of Ignorance begins with American psychiatry\'s formal beginnings in the 1840s and moves through two centuries of constant struggle simply to define and redefine mental illness, to say nothing of the best way to treat it..
On the Heels of Ignorance begins with American psychiatry\'s formal beginnings in the 1840s and moves through two centuries of constant struggle simply to define and redefine mental illness, to say nothing of the best way to treat it.