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Plot summary. 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. Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but Miss Adclyffe's machinations, the discovery that Edward is already ...
- Thomas Hardy Hardy
- Novel
- 1871
- 1871
Apr 9, 2022 · Desperate Remedies by Andrew Scull review – mind games. The chequered history of psychiatry over the last 200 years is one of much pain and some progress. Rebecca Lawrence. Sat 9 Apr 2022 02.30...
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.
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- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Stewart Main, Peter Wells
- 1993-11-26
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 ...
- Richard J. Mcnally
In 19th-century New Zealand, Dorothea (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) hires brooding hunk Lawrence (Kevin Smith) to use his charm to forestall a marriage between her sister and her no-good suitor. Lawrence...
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- Peter Wells, Stewart Main
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Jun 3, 2022 · 6 min. Andrew Scull’s “ Desperate Remedies ” tells the story of psychiatry in the United States from the 19th-century asylum to 21st-century psychopharmacology.
Apr 1, 2024 · — Wall Street Journal. “Brimming with wisdom and brio, this masterful work spans the history of psychiatry. Exceedingly well-researched, wide-ranging, provocative in its conclusions, and magically compact, it is riveting from start to finish. Mark my words, Desperate Remedies will soon be a classic.” —Susannah Cahalan, author of Brain on Fire.
