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17%OFFJeffrey A. Lieberman - Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry - 9781780227016 - V9781780227016
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Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry

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Description for Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry Paperback. A seminal account of the history and contemporary landscape of psychiatry. Num Pages: 352 pages, integrated photographs. BIC Classification: MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
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 pseudo-science through its adolescence as a cult of 'shrinks' to its late ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780227016
SKU
V9781780227016
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About Jeffrey A. Lieberman
Jeffrey A. Lieberman has spent over twenty-five years caring for patients and studying the nature and treatment of mental illness. he is the former President of the American Psychiatric Association, Chairman of Psychiatry at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Psychiatrist in Chief at Columbia University Medical Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital, and Director of the New York State Psychiatric ... Read more

Reviews for Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
SHRINKS is a great read and is highly recommended. By combining clinical case histories and theoretical musings, it describes where psychiatry came from and where it is going. The author, a highly respected clinical, research, and academic psychiatrist and recent President of the American Psychiatric Association, does not hesitate to describe the soft underbelly of his profession as it ... Read more

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