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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Public perceptions of mental health issues have changed dramatically over the last fifteen years, and nowhere more than in the rampant overmedication of ordinary Americans. In 2006, 227 million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed in the United States, more than any other class of medication; that year, the United States accounted for 66% of the global market. Here, psychiatrist Barber provides a context for this disturbing phenomenon. He explores...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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, the path to legitimacy for "the black sheep of medicine" has been anything but smooth. Here, 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...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xviii, 494 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A history of American psychiatry-from jails to hospitals to the lab to the analyst's couch. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind-the sorts of things that were once called "madness"-have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, whose origins can be identified and from which one can be cured. But is this true? In this account of America's quest to understand and...
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