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When Healing Harms: The Doctor Who Put a Hospital on Trial—and the Case That Shook Psychiatry with Eric Caplan (U California Press, 2026)

In 1979, Dr. Raphael Osheroff admitted himself to Chestnut Lodge, a prestigious psychiatric hospital in Rockville, Maryland, expecting world-class care for his severe depression. Instead, he was confined to a locked ward, denied medication, and subjected to seven months of talk t ... Show more

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Psychoanalysis and the Struggle for Love: A Kaleidoscopic View with Mark Kinet (Routledge, 2026)

Dr Mark Kinet (MD) discusses Psychoanalysis and the Struggle for Love: A Kaleidoscopic View (Routledge, 2026), published by Routledge in 2026. This book is a psychoanalytic foray into the rhetorics of struggle which shape love, desire and their production. Through readings of Fre ... Show more

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