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Shrinks: the Untold Story of Psychiatry
Shrinks: the Untold Story of Psychiatry
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The inspiration for the PBS series Mysterious of Mental Illness, Shrinks brilliantly tells the "astonishing" story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption (Siddhartha Mukherjee).
Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public.
But, as Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, the former president of the American Psychiatric Association, reveals in his extraordinary and eye-opening book, the path to legitimacy for "the black sheep of medicine" has been anything but smooth.
In Shrinks, Dr. Lieberman traces the field from its birth as a mystic pseudo-science through its adolescence as a cult of "shrinks" to its late blooming maturity &; beginning after World War II &; as a science-driven profession that saves lives. With fascinating case studies and portraits of the luminaries of the field &; from Sigmund Freud to Eric Kandel &; Shrinks is a gripping and illuminating read, and an urgent call-to-arms to dispel the stigma of mental illnesses by treating them as diseases rather than unfortunate states of mind.
&;A lucid popular history...At once skeptical and triumphalist. It shows just how far psychiatry has come.&; &;Julia M. Klein, Boston Globe
Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public.
But, as Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, the former president of the American Psychiatric Association, reveals in his extraordinary and eye-opening book, the path to legitimacy for "the black sheep of medicine" has been anything but smooth.
In Shrinks, Dr. Lieberman traces the field from its birth as a mystic pseudo-science through its adolescence as a cult of "shrinks" to its late blooming maturity &; beginning after World War II &; as a science-driven profession that saves lives. With fascinating case studies and portraits of the luminaries of the field &; from Sigmund Freud to Eric Kandel &; Shrinks is a gripping and illuminating read, and an urgent call-to-arms to dispel the stigma of mental illnesses by treating them as diseases rather than unfortunate states of mind.
&;A lucid popular history...At once skeptical and triumphalist. It shows just how far psychiatry has come.&; &;Julia M. Klein, Boston Globe
- Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
- Dimensions: 14.1 x 2.38 x 21.08 cm
- Language: English
- Print length: 342 pages
- Item weight: 295 g
- Edition: Reprint
- Book Type: Paperback
- ISBN-10: 031627898X
- ISBN-13: 978-0316278980
- Publication date: 5 January 2016
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