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Andrew Scull

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  • American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, Hartford, Connecticut.

    What Was Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization?

    An interview with sociologist and historian of psychiatry Andrew Scull about the history and legacy of psychiatric deinstitutionalization.
    by Andrew Scull via Damage on April 22, 2024
  • A Brief and Awful History of the Lobotomy

    Groundbreaking discoveries... but at what cost?
    by Andrew Scull via Literary Hub on July 30, 2019
Book
Psychiatry and Its Discontents
Andrew Scull
2021
Book
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
Andrew Scull
2022

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