Body & Brain/Mental Health
From Fever Cure to Coma Therapy: Psychiatric Treatments Through Time
The following is excerpted from Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry, by Jeffrey A. Lieberman. Listen to SciFri on Friday, May 1, to hear Lieberman talk about the history of psychiatry. In the early decades of the twentieth century, asylums were filled with inmates suffering from a peculiar form of psychosis known as “general paresis of […]
