Shrinks

**The fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption, by the former President of the American Psychiatric Association.** 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, 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...