{"product_id":"shrinks-the-untold-story-of-psychiatry","title":"Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry","description":"The inspiration for the PBS series Mysterious of Mental Illness, Shrinks brilliantly tells the \"astonishing\" story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption (Siddhartha Mukherjee).\n\nPsychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining \"lunatics\" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public.\n\nBut, 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.\n\nIn 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.\n\n“A lucid popular history...At once skeptical and triumphalist. It shows just how far psychiatry has come.” —Julia M. Klein, Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0316278866\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0316278866.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Lieberman, Jeffrey A.|Ogas, Ogi\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43130811220029,"sku":"BVV.0316278866.G","price":7.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0316278866-0.jpg?v=1777064556","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/shrinks-the-untold-story-of-psychiatry","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}