# Shrinks

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- Book: [Shrinks](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeffrey-a-lieberman/shrinks) ([Shrinks.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeffrey-a-lieberman/shrinks.md))
- Authors: [Jeffrey A. Lieberman](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeffrey-a-lieberman), [Ogi Ogas](https://www.bookquiver.com/ogi-ogas), [Graham Corrigan](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-corrigan)
- Publisher: w_n
- ISBN: 978-17-8022-701-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2016-03-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 blooming maturity since the Second World War 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. It is also an urgent call-to-arms to dispel the stigma surrounding mental illness and to start treating it as a disease rather than a state of mind.