Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970

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Focusing on the interplay between American medicine, psychiatry, and culture from World War II to the early 1970s, this intellectual history explores how national politics, public discourse, and healthcare debates influenced societal views on health and illness. Martin Halliwell delves into the impact of film, literature, and mass media as cultural forces that shaped and contested prevailing attitudes, offering a comprehensive examination of therapeutic revolutions during this transformative period.