Shrinks
The Untold Story of Psychiatry
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Graham Corrigan
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A world-renowned psychiatrist reveals the fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption.
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 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 pseudoscience through its adolescence as a cult of "shrinks" to its late-blooming maturity since the Second World War 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. It is also an urgent call to arms to dispel the stigma surrounding mental illness and to start treating it as a disease rather than a state of mind.
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- Melanie
- 23-05-2020
Excellent!
Fascinating book. Incredibly honest and humbling. This should also be the foundation for a documentary as this valuable content needs to reach a much wider audience.
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- MT
- 28-12-2022
Excellent
Strongly recommended especially for psychiatry trainees! It tells the story of dsm and the history of psychiatry beautifully,
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- Juan Velastegui
- 30-07-2023
A story wonderfully told
The author took the very complex and vast history of arguably the most controversial profession in medicine and, analyzed it brilliantly. It felt as if I was taken through the very history of the of western world over the last century in various aspects and how it shaped he current understanding of mental health and illness. Thoroughly enjoyable!
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- Anonymous User
- 25-06-2020
informative
Found this audiobook both informative and interesting. Very good for preparing for RANZCP fellowship exams.
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- Marion
- 16-02-2017
Fascinating history of psychiatry
Really enjoyed listening to how our views of psychiatry have been shaped by its history.
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