{"product_id":"book-bliv","title":"Shrinks","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe inspiration for the PBS series \u003ci\u003eMysterious of Mental Illness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShrinks\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly tells the groundbreaking story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Astonishing.\" —Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor of All Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49349623218480,"sku":"BDbliv","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/bliv-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776219167","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bliv","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}