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Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-10031627898X
ISBN-139780316278980
eBay Product ID (ePID)11038276837
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameShrinks : the Untold Story of Psychiatry
SubjectNeuroscience, Mental Health, Psychiatry / General, History
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
AuthorJeffrey A. Lieberman
Subject AreaPsychology, Medical
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight12.5 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"An astonishing book: honest, sober, exciting, and humane. Lieberman writes with the authority of an expert, but with the humility of a doctor who has learned to treat the most profound and mysterious forms of mental illnesses. ... This book brings you to the very forefront of one of the most amazing medical journeys of our time."-- Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal616.89009
SynopsisThe 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, "An astonishing book: honest, sober, exciting, and humane... Shrinks] brings you to the very forefront of one of the most amazing medical journeys of our time." --Siddhartha Mukherjee Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells. But, as Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, reveals in his eye-opening book, the path to legitimacy for "the black sheep of medicine" has been anything but smooth. Dr. Lieberman traces the field from its birth as a mystic pseudo-science 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 field's luminaries--from Sigmund Freud to Eric Kandel--SHRINKS is a gripping 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.