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Anne Harrington

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Psychiatry, Racism, and the Birth of ‘Sesame Street’

How a black psychiatrist helped design a groundbreaking television show as a radical therapeutic tool for minority preschoolers.

by Anne Harrington via UnDark on May 17, 2019
On Early 20th-Century America’s Unhealthy Fixation with ‘Hygiene’

Junk Science, paternalism, and a misplaced faith in 'expertise.'

by Anne Harrington via Literary Hub on April 25, 2019

Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness

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Colorful rainbow image of a brain.

Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head

Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.

by Marco Ramos via Boston Review on May 17, 2022

Nurse administering electroshock therapy to a patient.

The Troubled History of Psychiatry

Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself. What, exactly, constitutes a mental disorder?

by Jerome Groopman via The New Yorker on May 20, 2019

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