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By Stanley W. Jackson. 504 pp. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1999. $45. ISBN 0-300-07671-1.

A brilliant book, this carefully detailed account is intended by its author to be "a study of the history of psychological healing in the care and cure of human ailments." Stanley Jackson is a psychiatrist, medical historian, and all-around scholar at the Yale University School of Medicine. Since I worked at that school for 44 years, bias might seem to lead to overdone praise, but Jackson's masterpiece will have a life of its own, a long one, regardless of plaudits. Its main failings come in the enormous amount of detail crammed into its 504 pages (including the index) and the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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