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Anne Harrington: MIND FIXERS W43 [2019] hardback CHEAR Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traversesIn Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists to insist, with some justification, that they had better ways of analysing and fixing minds. But when the Freudians overreached, they drove psychiatry into a state of