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Psychiatry and Its Discontents Cultural Heritage It is the story ofWritten by one of the worlds most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull traces the rise of the field, the midcentury hegemony of psychoanalytic methods, and the paradigm's decline with the ascendance of biological and pharmaceutical approaches to mental illness. The book's historical sweep is