Description Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knots, often invoking the latest medical science in doing so.
On the Heels of Ignorance begins with psychiatry\'s formal inception in the 1840s and moves through two centuries of constant struggle simply to define.
But, as Owen Whooley\'s sweeping new book tells us, the history of American Psychiatry is really a record of ignorance.
Description Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knots, often invoking the latest medical science in doing so