
Mind Fixers
Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
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Joyce Bean
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Anne Harrington
The story of the unfulfilled quest to find the biological basis of mental illness, and its profound effects on patients, families, and American society.
In the 1980s, American psychiatry announced that it was time to toss aside Freudian ideas of mental disorder because the true path to understanding and treating mental illness lay in brain science, biochemistry, and drugs. This sudden call to revolution, however, was not driven by any scientific breakthroughs. Nor was it as unprecedented as it seemed. Why had previous efforts stalled? Was this latest call really any different?
In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington offers the first comprehensive history of the troubled search for the biological basis of mental illness. She makes clear that this story is not just about laboratories and clinical trials, but also momentous public policies, acrid professional rivalries, cultural upheavals, grassroots activism, and profit-mongering. Harrington traces a consistent thread of over-promising and frustrated hopes. Above all, she helps us understand why psychiatry’s biological program is in crisis today, and what needs to happen next.
©2019 by Anne Harrington. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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PSYCHIATRY
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While giving an amazing history of mental health, psychiatry and pharmaceuticals, Harrington provides the human side of the story without shying away from the unfortunate, dehumanizing and parochial views mental health professionals, namely psychiatrists, held throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. This book documents the dialectical progress of the field as mental health professionals and society searched for new and better answers to mental disorders.
What becomes painfully clear through this book is that the hunt for simple or even logical solutions to mental health problems is a pipe dream. Our understandings of chemical imbalances corrected by medications are almost all fictions dreamed up by marketing firms. It becomes clear that psychiatry needs to reevaluate its current course, just as it has done throughout its history.
As much as this book challenges our views about the field it also throws down the gauntlet over failed reforms of the mental health system in the US initiated by the Kennedy administration, as well as the long term consequences of Lyndon Johnson’s great society program. The destruction of mental hospitals and the failure of the community based approach have lead to burdens on families and the mentally ill roaming the streets homeless. Public policy is a critical component in creating and alleviating the burdens on our most at risk populations.
Harrington also, without directly saying so, does a fantastic job of dealing with the intersectionality of many mental health issues. She does not shy away from racism, sexism, and homophobia reflected in psychiatry’s enforcement of “normal behavior.”
This book is a compelling read, contains fascinating case studies from the key turning points in psychology, and takes a humanistic and compassionate approach. It was easy to follow as a layman and at points I found it simply jaw dropping. I highly recommend it.
Psychiatry at a cross roads
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We all have a family member with mental illness
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However, the second half contains a looping, repetitive timeline that intersects with the first half and other chapters in a confusing way.
Got lost in the timeline
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muy completo, pero tal vez innecesariamente largo
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Experientially I differ with the idea that psychologists sociologists and psychiatrist are in a constant battle over power and control. most of of my career I saw collaboration amongst these various professionals always keeping the vision on the patient rather than on the ego.
sometimes the book seems a little too pessimistic. we all have a shadow side to us and so it seems most branches of big Pharma do also.
thinking outside the box.
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I’m a Psych Nurse.
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interesting book
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Days of future past
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Brilliant!
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