Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
English | 12 March 2015 | ASIN: B00U07T8AG | M4B@62 kbps | 9h 45m | 256.62 MB
Author: Jeffrey A Lieberman, Ogi Ogas
Narrator: Graham Corrigan
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.
