The mind has mountains : reflections on society and psychiatry / Paul R. McHugh.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Psychiatric misadventures -- Psychotherapy awry -- What's the story? -- How psychiatry lost its way -- Romancing depression -- The Kevorkian epidemic -- Dying made easy -- Annihilating Terri Schiavo -- Hippocrates à la mode -- The death of Freud and the rebirth of psychiatry -- The end of a delusion: the psychiatric memory wars are over -- Dissociative identity disorder is a socially constructed artifact -- Genius in a time, place, and person: foreword to Karl Jasper's General psychopathology, volume I -- William Osler and the new psychiatry -- Psychiatry and its scientific relatives: "a little more than kin and less than kind" -- A structure for psychiatry at the century's turn: the view from Johns Hopkins -- Treating the mind as well as the brain -- Two perspectives on consciousness -- Another psychiatrist's Shakespeare -- Surgical sex -- No veterinarian to "the naked ape" -- Zygote and "clonote": the ethical use of embryonic stem cells -- A psychiatrist looks at terrorism.

Includes bibliographical references and index.