Shrinks by Jeffrey A. Lieberman & Ogi Ogas Summary
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Psychiatry's controversial journey from pseudoscience to respected medicine, revealed by former APA president Lieberman. A masterful exploration that sparked fierce debate among professionals while working to destigmatize mental illness. Can understanding psychiatry's dark past illuminate our mental health future?
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From Madness to Medicine: How Psychiatry Found Its Soul
What happens when your daughter starts following strangers home, convinced that angels have replaced her parents' souls? For one wealthy family, their Yale student's descent into psychosis led them everywhere except where they needed to go-meditation retreats, life coaches, naturopaths-anything but a psychiatrist. When they finally relented and Elena received treatment, something remarkable happened: within three weeks, the delusions vanished. Her natural personality returned as if awakening from a nightmare. Yet her parents remained unconvinced, stopping her medication and watching helplessly as the symptoms crept back. This tension between psychiatry's power to heal and society's reluctance to trust it reveals how far we've come-and how far we still need to go. Before psychiatry became medicine, it was theater. Franz Anton Mesmer, an eighteenth-century showman, claimed he could cure mental illness by manipulating "magnetic energy flows" through strategic touching. His theories were nonsense, eventually debunked by a committee led by Benjamin Franklin. Yet Mesmer revolutionized something crucial: he proposed that mental illness wasn't punishment for sin or unchangeable destiny, but a treatable medical condition stemming from disrupted physiological mechanisms. This radical idea-that madness could be cured-planted the seed for modern psychiatry, even if his methods were pure spectacle. The field spent the next century oscillating wildly between romantic intuition and rigid biological research, neither approach yielding real results. While other medical fields advanced with X-rays and anesthesia, psychiatrists remained glorified caretakers, offering compassion but little hope.
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco
"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
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