{"product_id":"shrinks-jeffrey-a-lieberman-9780316278980","title":"Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe inspiration for the PBS series \u003ci\u003eMysterious of Mental Illness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShrinks\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly tells the \"astonishing\" story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption (Siddhartha Mukherjee). \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePsychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining \"lunatics\" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eShrinks\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 -- \u003ci\u003eShrinks\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A lucid popular history...At once skeptical and triumphalist. It shows just how far psychiatry has come.\" --Julia M. Klein, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey A. Lieberman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 031627898X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316278980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Little, Brown Spark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/07\/2016 pg. 28","brand":"Jeffrey A. Lieberman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049590616319,"sku":"9780316278980","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d5112938-1020-4bfa-a0de-9f7bd6ba846d.jpg?v=1685002388","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shrinks-jeffrey-a-lieberman-9780316278980","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}