The drugs that changed our minds : the history of psychiatry in ten treatments
Slater, Lauren2018
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As our approach to mental illness has oscillated from biological to psychoanalytical and back again, so have our treatments. With the rise of psychopharmacology, an ever-increasing number of people throughout the globe are taking a psychotropic drug, yet nearly seventy years after doctors first began prescribing them, we still don't really know exactly how or why they work - or don't work - on what ails our brains. In 'The Drugs that Changed Our Minds', Lauren Slater offers an explosive account not just of the science but of the people - inventors, detractors and consumers - behind our narcotics, from the earliest, Thorazine and Lithium, up through Prozac, Ecstasy, 'magic mushrooms', the most cutting-edge memory drugs and neural implants.
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London : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
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408 pages ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781471136887 (hbk)
Dewey class:
615.7'88615.788
Language:
English
BRN:
2601282
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