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1 online resource (viii, 342 pages) : illustrations |
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Intro; Title Page; Welcome; Dedication; Epigraph; Introduction: What's Wrong with Elena?; Part I: The Story of Diagnosis; Chapter 1: The Stepchild of Medicine: Mesmerists, Alienists, and Analysts; Chapter 2: Down the Garden Path: The Rise of the Shrink; Chapter 3: What Is Mental Illness?: A Farrago of Diagnoses; Chapter 4: Destroying the Rembrandts, Goyas, and Van Goghs: Anti-Freudians to the Rescue; Part II: The Story of Treatment; Chapter 5: Desperate Measures: Fever Cures, Coma Therapy, and Lobotomies; Chapter 6: Mother's Little Helper: Medicine at Last; Part III: Psychiatry Reborn |
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Chapter 7: Out of the Wilderness: The Brain RevolutionChapter 8: Soldier's Heart: The Mystery of Trauma; Chapter 9: The Triumph of Pluralism: The DSM-5; Chapter 10: The End of Stigma: The Future of Psychiatry; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Sources and Additional Reading; Copyright Acknowledgments; About the Author; Praise for Jeffrey Lieberman's ""Shrinks; Newsletters; Table of Contents; Copyright |
| Summary |
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 treating them as diseases rather than unfortunate states of mind. |
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Traces the rise, fall, and redemption of psychiatry, illuminating the contributions of such figures as Sigmund Freud and Eric Kandel while calling for an end to cultural stigmas that prevent effective mental treatments. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-327) and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Psychiatry -- History.
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Mental illness -- Treatment.
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History. |
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Medical. |
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Psychiatry. |
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Nonfiction. |
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Electronic books. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ogas, Ogi, author.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Lieberman, Jeffrey A., 1948- Shrinks New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015 9780316278867 (NjBwBT)bl2015006112 (OCoLC)883650254 |
| ISBN |
9780316295260 : $84.00 |
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0316295264 : $84.00 |
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