Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry - Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Ogi Ogas

Written by Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Ogi Ogas
Read by Graham Corrigan
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

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 audiobook, 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 listen, and an urgent call-to-arms to dispel the stigma of mental illnesses by treating them as diseases rather than unfortunate states of mind.
©2015 Jeffrey A. Lieberman (P)2015 Hachette Audio

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