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By Elizabeth Lunbeck. 431 pp. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1994. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-04804-5.

Elizabeth Lunbeck has written an ambitious, detailed, and very interesting book about early 20th-century American psychiatry. Using the tools of a historian and the skills of a talented writer, she presents a history of the discipline in a period of essential transition. Whereas so many historical studies of psychiatry are written by members of the discipline, reflecting the development of a particular school of thought, Lunbeck has attempted to view this period of psychiatric history more broadly, using a social context to examine how psychiatrists viewed society and how society shaped the development of psychiatric thought.

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