Edward Shorter: 11 books
How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
About one American in five receives a diagnosis of major depression over the course of a lifetime. That's despite the fact that many such patients have no mood disorder; they're not sad, but suffer from anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, or a tendency to obsess about the whole business. "There is a...
by Edward Shorter
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
This short book by award-winning historian Edward Shorter explores the popular appeal of erotica and the allure of fetish sadomasochism. Shorter, a professor at the University of Toronto, is the author of 'Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire' which was short-listed for Canada’s major literary...
Partnership for Excellence
Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine is North America’s largest medical school and a major health consortium, boasting nine affiliated teaching hospitals and a network of research institutes. It is where insulin was pioneered, stem cells were first discovered, and famous physicians...
Written in the Flesh
A History of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Written in the Flesh is a history of sexual desire – a startling and provocative history of what people yearn to do sexually. It is the story of the whole body's need for sexual attention rather than simply the genitalia and their procreational function.
The desire for sexual pleasure and...
What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5
Historical Mental Disorders Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Choice Recommended Read
What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today covers the diagnoses that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) failed to include, along with diagnoses that should not have been included, but were. Psychiatry as a field...
by Edward Shorter
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Rock’n’roll mirrors society’s changing attitudes about sex. The women who fainted at the concerts of Little Richard, Elvis Presley’s provocative (for their time) pelvic thrusts, Sid and Nancy Vicious embodying the self-destructive nihilism of punk-rock with their troubled relationship, and...
The Madness of Fear
A History of Catatonia
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
What are the real disease entities in psychiatry? This is a question that has bedeviled the study of the mind for more than a century yet it is low on the research agenda of psychiatry. Basic science issues such as neuroimaging, neurochemistry, and genetics carry the day instead. There is nothing...
Women's Bodies
A Social History of Women's Encounter with Health, Ill-Health and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
What has been the source of women's oppression by men? Shorter argues that women were victimized by their own bodies. Exploring five centuries of medical records and folklore from Europe and the US, he shows how pregnancy, childbirth, and gynecological disease have kept women in positions of social
From Paralysis to Fatigue
A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The first book to put the physical symptoms of stress in their historical and cultural context.
This fascinating history of psychosomatic disorders shows how patients throughout the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society. Newly popularized...
Doctors and Their Patients
A Social History
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
With every passing year, the mutual mistrust between doctor and patient widens, as doctors retreat into resentment and patients become increasingly disillusioned with the quality of care. Rich in anecdote as well as science 'Doctors and Their Patients' describes how both have arrived at this sad shape.
by Edward Shorter
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
This is the first historical dictionary of psychiatry. It covers the subject from autism to Vienna, and includes the key concepts, individuals, places, and institutions that have shaped the evolution of psychiatry and the neurosciences. An introduction puts broad trends and international differences...