Shrinks - The Untold Story of Psychiatry
epub | 2.35 MB | English | Author :Jeffrey A. Lieberman | 0316278866 | 2015 | Little, Brown and Company

Book Description :

The fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption, by the former President of the American Psychiatric Association.
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, 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...

Category : | Psychiatry, Medical History, History of Medicine