The dominating idea of English society was not cultivate virtue but to avoid scandal.

The dominating idea of English society was not cultivate virtue but to avoid scandal.

Edward Short
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The dominating idea of English society was not cultivate virtue but to avoid scandal.

Edward Short
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If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry--has been a smashing success. Freud's ideas, which dominated the history of psychiatry for the past half century, are now vanishing like the last snows of winter.

Edward Shorter, A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac
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