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Edited by German E. Berrios and Roy Porter. 684 pp. New York, New York University Press, 1995. $65. ISBN 0-8147-1259-2.

This book is formidable. Expecting to review a brief narrative providing an overview of the history of psychiatry, I found myself immersed in a work of great complexity. The immersion was worthwhile; this wonderful book will be read with pleasure by historians of medicine, with profit by clinicians, and with gratitude by students of specific syndromes.

Despite its title, this book is really a historical resource on neuropsychiatry, and many chapters deal with primarily neurologic topics. Freudians are given short shrift in many of the chapters, and psychoanalysts should not search through this book for accounts of their history. A . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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