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PublisherLittle Brown & Company

ISBN-100316370622

ISBN-139780316370622

eBay Product ID (ePID)8038290955

Product Key Features

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameBlue Dreams : the Science and the Story of the Drugs That Changed Our Minds

Publication Year2019

SubjectEntheogens & Visionary Substances, Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology, Industries / Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Psychopathology / Depression, Psychopathology / Addiction

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaBody, Mind & Spirit, Psychology, Business & Economics, Medical

AuthorLauren Slater

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight12.7 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal615.7/88

Synopsis"Capacious and rigorous . . . Blue Dreams , like all good histories of medicine, reveals healing to be art as much as science." --Parul Sehgal, New York Times "Terrific." --@MichaelPollan "Ambitious...Slater's depictions of madness are terrifying and fascinating." -- USA Today "A vivid and thought-provoking synthesis." -- Harper's A groundbreaking and revelatory history of psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" ( Washington Post ) . Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact remains that nearly seventy years after doctors first began prescribing them, not even their creators understand exactly how or why these drugs work--or don't work--on what ails our brains. Blue Dreams offers the explosive story of the discovery and development of psychiatric medications, as well as the science and the people behind their invention, told by a riveting writer and psychologist who shares her own experience with the highs and lows of psychiatric drugs. Lauren Slater's revelatory account charts psychiatry's journey from its earliest drugs, Thorazine and lithium, up through Prozac and other major antidepressants of the present. Blue Dreams also chronicles experimental treatments involving Ecstasy, magic mushrooms, the most cutting-edge memory drugs, placebos, and even neural implants. In her thorough analysis of each treatment, Slater asks three fundamental questions: how was the drug born, how does it work (or fail to work), and what does it reveal about the ailments it is meant to treat? Fearlessly weaving her own intimate experiences into comprehensive and wide-ranging research, Slater narrates a personal history of psychiatry itself. In the process, her powerful and groundbreaking exploration casts modern psychiatry's ubiquitous wonder drugs in a new light, revealing their ability to heal us or hurt us, and proving an indispensable resource not only for those with a psychotropic prescription but for anyone who hopes to understand the limits of what we know about the human brain and the possibilities for future treatments., One in five Americans now takes at least one psychiatric drug, but nearly seventy years after doctors first began prescribing them not even their creators understand exactly how or why they work-or don't. Blue Dreams offers the explosive story of the discovery of these major drugs, as well as the science and the people behind their invention and development, from Thorazine and lithium up through Prozac and other major antidepressants, of today, and controversial experimental treatments involving Ecstasy, magic mushrooms, neural implants, and the most cutting-edge memory drugs. Fearlessly weaving her own mental health struggles into her comprehensive research, Lauren Slater provides a powerful and groundbreaking exploration of psychiatry's ubiquitous wonder drugs, revealing their ability to heal or hurt us. Blue Dreams is an indispensable resource not only for those with a psychiatric prescription but for anyone who hopes to understand the limits of what we know about the human brain and the possibilities for future treatments. Book jacket., The explosive story of the discovery and development of psychiatric medications, as well as the science and the people behind their invention, told by a riveting writer and psychologist who shares her own experience with the highs and lows of psychiatric drugs. Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact remains that nearly seventy years after doctors first began prescribing them, not even their creators understand exactly how or why these drugs work -- or don't work -- on what ails our brains. Lauren Slater's revelatory account charts psychiatry's journey from its earliest drugs, Thorazine and lithium, up through Prozac and other major antidepressants of the present. Blue Dreams also chronicles experimental treatments involving Ecstasy, magic mushrooms, the most cutting-edge memory drugs, placebos, and even neural implants. In her thorough analysis of each treatment, Slater asks three fundamental questions: how was the drug born, how does it work (or fail to work), and what does it reveal about the ailments it is meant to treat? Fearlessly weaving her own intimate experiences into comprehensive and wide-ranging research, Slater narrates a personal history of psychiatry itself. In the process, her powerful and groundbreaking exploration casts modern psychiatry's ubiquitous wonder drugs in a new light, revealing their ability to heal us or hurt us, and proving an indispensable resource not only for those with a psychotropic prescription but for anyone who hopes to understand the limits of what we know about the human brain and the possibilities for future treatments.