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Saints and Madmen How Pioneering Psychiatrists Are Creating a New Science of the Soul

Paperback • 2000 • English

Saints and Madmen How Pioneering Psychiatrists Are Creating a New Science of the Soul

By Russell Shorto

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Psychiatry, once famously opposed to religion, has done an about-face. Like the legendary explorers of a century ago, some psychiatrists have set off into what they see as the last frontier: the spiritual self. In this moving and impeccably researched narrative, Russell Shorto tells remarkable stories of people suffering from what once were deemed spiritual afflictions, then came to be seen as purely medical disorders, and now are being treated as both. In the process, Shorto brings to bear iss...Show more

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ISBN

9780805059014

Publisher

Macmillan

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Saints and Madmen How Pioneering Psychiatrists Are Creating a New Science of the Soul

Format

Paperback

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