TY  - GEN
AU  - Lieberman, Jeffrey A.
AU  - Ogas, Ogi
TI  - Shrinks: the untold story of psychiatry
SN  - 9780316278980
U1  - 616.89009 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Little, Brown Spark
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Mental illness -- Treatment
KW  - Mental illness
N2  - 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 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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