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The Drugs That Changed Our Minds - The history of psychiatry in ten treatments (Hardcover)
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The Drugs That Changed Our Minds - The history of psychiatry in ten treatments (Hardcover)
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'Poignant and lyrical...Slater's experience makes her a convincing
travel guide into the history, creation and future of
psychotropics.' - The New York Times Book Review A groundbreaking
and revelatory story of the psychotropic drugs that have shaped our
minds and our reality. 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.
In so doing, she narrates the history of psychiatry itself and
illuminates the signature its colourful little capsules have left
on millions of brains worldwide, and how these wonder drugs may
heal us or hurt us. Praise for the book: 'A powerful new book' -
The Daily Mail 'The messy history and brave future of psychotropic
drugs' - O Magazine 'Vivid and thought-provoking' - Harper's
Magazine 'Ambitious...Slater's depictions of madness are terrifying
and fascinating' - USA Today 'Vigorous research and intimate
reflection...highly compelling' - Kirkus
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