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Neurologist Oliver Sacks' 1985 book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat challenges the impersonal approach doctors took to patient care and paved the way for a new literary genre: popular science.
At the time of its publication, neurologists and physicians relied mainly on clinical studies and their own expertise to set the course of treatment. Sacks found this inhumane and developed a very different approach, clearly demonstrated in The Man Who Mistook His Wife. He provides rich, narrative case studies of his patients, believing that neurology had lost sight of the high personal costs paid by those with neurological disorders. To this end, Sacks focuses on how patients cope with these disorders and their altered sense of self. Sacks talks of "romantic science", casting the patients in his 24 case studies almost as literary heroes and heroines, and borrowing from the realms of art, literature, and psychology to do so.
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A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality - but how did their writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America?
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5 out of 5 stars
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High Weirdness
- De Amazon Customer en 09-17-20
De: Erik Davis
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The Myth of Mental Illness
- Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
- De: Thomas S. Szasz MD
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness, psychiatrists, Szasz argues, absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions and instead blame their alleged illness. He also critiques Freudian psychology as a pseudoscience and warns against the dangerous overreach of psychiatry into all aspects of modern life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good format for initial exposure to the material.
- De Anonymous User en 11-29-21
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The Twilight of the American Enlightenment
- The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
- De: George M. Marsden
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the country's secular liberalelites for guidance in this precarious time, but these intellectuals proved unable to articulate a coherent common cause by which America could chart its course.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Such a relevant book to our current world
- De Adam Shields en 09-14-16
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Why Trust Science?
- The University Center for Human Values, Book 1
- De: Naomi Oreskes
- Narrado por: John Chancer, Kelly Burke, Kerry Shale, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don't? In this landmark book, Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength - and the greatest reason we can trust it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect Production of an Excellent Work
- De Andrew Mazibrada en 01-15-20
De: Naomi Oreskes
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Jung
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Anthony Stevens
- Narrado por: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Duración: 3 h y 52 m
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Anthony Stevens argues that Jung's visionary powers and profound spirituality have helped many to find an alternative set of values to the arid materialism prevailing Western society.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very nice - will not be disappointed
- De Edgar en 12-15-05
De: Anthony Stevens
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The Age of Insight
- The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
- De: Eric R. Kandel
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 16 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind - our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions - and how mind and brain relate to art.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth the listen
- De Amazon Customer en 01-28-19
De: Eric R. Kandel
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Desperate Remedies
- Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
- De: Andrew Scull
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 18 h y 38 m
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For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind—the sorts of things that were once called "madness"—have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, whose origins can be identified and from which one can be cured. But is this true? In this masterful account of America's quest to understand and treat everything from anxiety to psychosis, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry today sheds light on its tumultuous past.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Great History but I Have One Big Reservation
- De Jeffrey Scot Minch en 08-02-22
De: Andrew Scull
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One Simple Idea
- How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life
- De: Mitch Horowitz
- Narrado por: Mitch Horowitz
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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From the millions-strong audiences of Oprah and The Secret to the mass-media ministries of evangelical figures like Joel Osteen and T. D. Jakes, to the motivational bestsellers and New Age seminars to the twelve-step programs and support groups of the recovery movement and to the rise of positive psychology and stress-reduction therapies, this idea - to think positively - is metaphysics morphed into mass belief. This is the biography of that belief.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding Popular History of New Thought!
- De Robert Ready en 01-11-14
De: Mitch Horowitz
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Orientalism
- De: Edward Said
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 19 h y 2 m
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This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism. Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism", which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. In Orientalism Said claimed a "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture."
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5 out of 5 stars
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We're lucky to have this on audio
- De Delano en 02-27-13
De: Edward Said
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One Nation Under Therapy
- How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance
- De: Christina Hoff Sommers, Sally Satel
- Narrado por: Dianna Dorman
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 134
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Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. Recent decades, however, have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, requiring the ministrations of mental-health professionals to cope with life's vicissitudes. Today, having a book for every ailment, a counselor for every crisis, a lawsuit for every grievance, and a TV show for every problem degrades one's native ability to cope with life's challenges.
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4 out of 5 stars
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If you want another perspective
- De Kurt en 03-07-09
De: Christina Hoff Sommers, y otros
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Crazy Like Us
- The Globalization of the American Psyche
- De: Ethan Watters
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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America has been the world leader in generating new mental health treatments and modern theories of the human psyche. We export our psychopharmaceuticals packaged with the certainty that our biomedical knowledge will relieve the suffering and stigma of mental illness. We categorize disorders, thereby defining mental illness and health, and then parade these seemingly scientific certainties in front of the world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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He is a reporter...
- De Briana en 05-07-18
De: Ethan Watters
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Freud
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Anthony Storr
- Narrado por: Neville Jason
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 122
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Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves. From its beginnings as a theory of neurosis Freud developed psychoanalysis into a general psychology, which became widely accepted as the predominant mode of discussing personality and interpersonal relationships. Anthony Storr goes one step further and investigates the status of Freud's legacy today and the disputes that surround it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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best for starters and reviewers
- De Graziela en 12-27-14
De: Anthony Storr
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Soul Machine
- The Invention of the Modern Mind
- De: George Makari
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept - the mind - emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine but fully neither.
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5 out of 5 stars
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High yield
- De Mark Twain en 01-21-16
De: George Makari
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Wired to Create
- Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind
- De: Carolyn Gregoire, Scott Barry Kaufman PhD
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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Based on the authors' wildly popular Huffington Post article "18 Things That Creative People Do Differently" (which generated five million views and 500,000 Facebook shares in one week), this well-researched and engaging audiobook uncovers what we know about creativity, and what anyone can do to enhance this essential aspect of their lives and work.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Solitude, Showers and Awe, Oh My!
- De Gillian en 01-05-16
De: Carolyn Gregoire, y otros
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Native American DNA
- Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
- De: Kim TallBear
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful - and problematic - scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. But tribal membership is a legal category that has developed in dependence on certain social understandings and historical contexts, a set of concepts that entangles genetic information in a web of family relations, reservation histories, tribal rules, and government regulations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Using this in class
- De L. McGinty en 08-05-23
De: Kim TallBear
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Culture and Imperialism
- De: Edward Said
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 19 h y 59 m
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A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism, this book explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. This classic study, the direct successor to Said's main work, is read by Peter Ganim ( Orientalism).
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5 out of 5 stars
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BRAVO, AUDIBLE!! WE NEED MORE SAID!! REAL BOOKS!!
- De AnthonyStevens en 02-27-11
De: Edward Said