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Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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Psychoanalysis and the Modern Psychiatric Experience

This chapter explores the influence of early 20th-century modernity on psychiatric institutions and societal views on mental health, particularly through the lens of psychoanalysis. It highlights the complex experiences of time within these hospitals, balancing comfort and horror, while questioning the applicability of a uniform analytical framework across diverse psychiatric contexts.

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