Mental Health History

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    • By: Peter Gray
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 26-03-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that our children, if free to pursue their own interests through play, will not only learn all they need to know but will do so with energy and passion....

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    • The Natural History of Innovation
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Eric Singer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-2010
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • What sparks the flash of brilliance? One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on - in exhilarating style - one of our key questions....

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    • What We Think and How We Came to Think It
    • By: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
    • Narrated by: Kris Dyer
    • Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 25-07-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • To imagine - to see that which is not there - is the startling ability that has fuelled human development and innovation through the centuries....

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    • Why We Play Video Games and What They Can Do for Us
    • By: Pete Etchells
    • Narrated by: Ryan Burke
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • When Pete Etchells was 13, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a virtual world - first as an escape, but later to try to understand what had happened....

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    • A Radical Defence of the Human Being
    • By: Paul Mason
    • Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Our world order is under pressure as never before. From new authoritarian regimes in the US, Turkey and Russia to the imminent breakup of the European Union and a social media awash with intolerance, things look set to fall apart just as abruptly as the Soviet Union did some 30 years ago....

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    • By: Robert Greene
    • Narrated by: Don Leslie
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 25-04-2007
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • The 33 Strategies of War is a comprehensive guide to the subtle social games of everyday life, informed by the most ingenious and effective military principles in war....

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    • The Pioneering Lives and Works of History’s Most Influential Psychologists
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Hadrian Howard
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Carl Gustav Jung, the man who created analytical psychology both as a concept and as a practice, was a complicated person. He is also very difficult to understand, partly because so many of his personality traits seem to be contradictory and sometimes mutually exclusive....

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    • Shell Shock on the Somme
    • By: Taylor Downing
    • Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Shell shock - what we would now refer to as battle trauma - was sweeping the Western Front....

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    • The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
    • By: Maryanne Wolf
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-2008
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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    • By: Ruta Sepetys
    • Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, 17-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own....

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    • The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
    • By: John Powell
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 20-12-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • An enthralling investigation into the mysteries of music....

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    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • By: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

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    • The Art and Science of Innovations That Last
    • By: David Edwards
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Most things we create will not matter. This book is about creating things that do, from a master innovator who brings science and art together in his cutting edge labs....

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    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • By: Jack El-Hai
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-2021
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

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    • A Journey Through the Madness Industry
    • By: Jon Ronson
    • Narrated by: Jon Ronson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 621 ratings
    • This is a story about madness. It all starts when journalist Jon Ronson is contacted by a leading neurologist....

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    • The Unknown History of Human Heredity
    • By: Theodore M. Porter
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-06-2018
    • Language: English
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    • In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes....

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    • The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
    • By: Edith Sheffer
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry....

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    • The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
    • By: Eric R. Kandel
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-2018
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind and how mind and brain relate to art....

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    • Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
    • By: Oliver Burkeman
    • Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 983 ratings
    • Of course, nobody needs telling that there isn't enough time. We're obsessed by our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, the struggle against distraction and the sense that our attention spans are shrivelling....

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