The History of Psychiatry.

The maze of the human mind...Some have sought to understand and order it through magic and religious invocation. Others through drugs and chemicals. Still others through analysis and insight. Spanning the centuries, this brilliant and authoritative work both describes and assesses these attempts. Included within its panoramic scope are the pre-Freudian world, the age of Freud and his major dissenters, and the dramatic new developments of recent years--such departures as group therapy, chemical therapy, Existential psychiatry, Zen Buddhism, and other currents of thought which even now are drastically altering our vision of ourselves.