Download or read book Pathologist of the Mind written by S. D. Lamb and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together private correspondence and uniquely detailed case histories, the author examines Adolf Meyer's efforts to institute a clinical science of psychiatry in the United States—one that harmonized the expectations of scientific medicine with his concept of the person as a biological organism and mental illness as an adaptive failure.