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Ian R. Dowbiggin Ph.D.

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Ian Robert Dowbiggin, Ph.D., is an academic historian and professor of history at the University of Prince Edward Island. He is the author of many books including The Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society, A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine, A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America, Suspicious Minds: The Triumph of Paranoia in Everyday Life, Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940, and Inheriting Madness: Professionalization and Psychiatric Knowledge in 19th Century France.

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Where Is the Love?
Whatever happened to Masters and Johnson? If you replied “who?” you just answered my question.
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You thought therapy would save your marriage? And all you got was divorce? Well, feel free to blame your therapist. That's because, for a long time, most therapists have been soft on divorce.