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100 1 $aDolnick, Edward,$d1952-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98039641
245 10 $aMadness on the couch :$bblaming the victim in the heyday of psychoanalysis /$cEdward Dolnick.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $a368 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [332]-346) and index.
505 00 $tPrologue: In Search of El Dorado --$gPt. 1.$tFreud --$gPt. 2.$tThe Heyday of Psychoanalysis --$gPt. 3.$tSchizophrenia --$gPt. 4.$tAutism --$gPt. 5.$tObsessive-Compulsive Disorder --$gPt. 6.$tConclusion.
520 $aIn the golden age of "talk therapy," the 1950s and 1960s, psychotherapists saw no limit to what they could do. Believing they had already explained the origins of war, homosexuality, anti-Semitism, and a host of neurotic ailments, they set out to conquer one of mankind's oldest and fiercest foes, mental illness. In Madness on the Couch, veteran science writer Edward Dolnick tells the tragic story of that confrontation.
520 8 $aMadness on the Couch uses the voices of therapists as well as those of patients and their loved ones to describe the controversial methods used to treat the mentally ill, and their heartbreaking consequences. We see the leading lights of psychotherapy at work, including tiny, grandmotherly Frieda Fromm-Reichmann; gawky Gregory Bateson, either a genius or a charlatan, depending on whom one asked; and birdlike R. D. Laing, a slender figure with dark, deep-set eyes and the charisma of a rock star.
520 8 $aWe meet, too, scientists and family members who fought the reigning dogma of the day. Bernard Rimland, for example, set out to refute the claim that autism was caused by "refrigerator" parents whose coldness had turned their children into zombies. Rimland's only "credential" in his battle with the experts was the fact that his son was autistic.
520 8 $aA gripping tale of hubris, arrogant pride, and terrible heartbreak, Madness on the Couch shows us convincingly that in attempting to cure mental illness through talk therapy, psychoanalysis did infinitely more harm than good.
650 0 $aPsychoanalysis.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108411
650 0 $aPsychiatric errors.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108349
650 0 $aSchizophrenia$xTreatment$xHistory.
650 0 $aAutism$xTreatment$xHistory.
650 0 $aObsessive-compulsive disorder$xTreatment$xHistory.
650 0 $aMental illness$xEtiology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005007698
852 00 $bbar$hRC506$i.D63 1998