The Psychiatric Persuasion:
Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America
Elizabeth Lunbeck

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	List of Illustrations
	List of Tables
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	3
1	Psychiatry between Old and New	11
2	Professing Gender	25
3	The Psychiatry of Everyday Life	46
4	Pathways to Psychiatric Scrutiny	81
5	Classification	114
6	Institutional Discipline	152
7	Woman as Hypersexual	185
8	Hysteria: The Revolt of the "Good Girl"	209
9	Modern Manhood, Dissolute and Respectable	229
10	The Sexual Politics of Marriage	256
11	Women Alone and Together	293
	Conclusion	306
	Appendix	311
	Note on Sources	325
	Notes	327
	Index	419

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