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Macdonald Critchley

Really the Blues

Melancholia and Depression: From Hippocratic Times to Modern Times

by Stanley W. Jackson

February 12, 1987 issue

Unkind Cuts

Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness

by Elliot S. Valenstein

April 24, 1986 issue

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