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In Desperate Remedies a young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry.
- Thomas Hardy Hardy
- 1871
Nov 26, 1993 · With Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Kevin Smith, Lisa Chappell, Cliff Curtis. In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter.
- (411)
- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Stewart Main, Peter Wells
- 1993-11-26
In 19th-century New Zealand, Dorothea (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) hires brooding hunk Lawrence (Kevin Smith) to use his charm to forestall a marriage between...
- (5)
- Peter Wells, Stewart Main
- R
- Drama, LGBTQ+
May 13, 2022 · An indisputable masterpiece among a flurry of reappraisals is Andrew Scull’s “Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness”—a comprehensive, fascinating and ...
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by sociologist Andrew Scull is a critical history of two hundred years of treatment of mental disorders in the United States.
Apr 1, 2024 · A comprehensive and provocative account of the quest to cure mental illness, from the asylum era to the latest drug trials. The author challenges the assumptions and controversies of psychiatry and its critics, based on extensive research and wide-ranging sources.
Apr 19, 2022 · DESPERATE REMEDIES. PSYCHIATRY’S TURBULENT QUEST TO CURE MENTAL ILLNESS. by Andrew Scull ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 19, 2022. A comprehensive history of American psychiatry. A longtime professor of sociology, Scull brings a lifetime of scholarship to bear on this authoritative and sobering book.
