History Mental Illness

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    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • By: Jack El-Hai
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
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    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

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    • How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System
    • By: E. Fuller Torrey
    • Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-14
    • Language: English
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    • E. Fuller Torrey's audiobook provides an inside perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program....

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    • Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
    • By: Robert Whitaker
    • Narrated by: Ken Kliban
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-10
    • Language: English
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    • In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery....

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    • Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
    • By: Anne Harrington
    • Narrated by: Joyce Bean
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • The story of the unfulfilled quest to find the biological basis of mental illness, and its profound effects on patients, families, and American society....

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    • Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness
    • By: Allan H. Ropper, Brian Burrell
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
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    • A noted neurologist challenges the widespread misunderstanding of brain disease and mental illness....

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    • Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
    • By: Andrew Scull
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind
    • By: Jaime Lowe
    • Narrated by: Jaime Lowe
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
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    • A riveting memoir and a fascinating investigation of the history, uses, and controversies behind lithium, an essential medication for millions of people struggling with bipolar disorder....

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    • A Psychiatrist's Travels Through the History of Mental Illness
    • By: Brendan Kelly
    • Narrated by: Ciaran O'Brien
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-22
    • Language: English
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    • In Search of Madness is an exploration of society's changing attitudes towards and attempts to deal with its mentally ill, from the author of The Science of Happiness....

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    • Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness
    • By: Andrew Scull
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
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    • In this clear-sighted and provocative exploration of psychiatry, acclaimed sociologist Andrew Scull traces the history of its attempts to understand and mitigate mental illness....

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    • A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War
    • By: Charles Glass
    • Narrated by: Edward Glass
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
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    • Soldiers Don't Go Mad tells for the first time the story of the soldiers and doctors who struggled with the effects of industrial warfare on the human psyche....

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    • Understanding Mental Illness Through Film
    • By: James Charney MD
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
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    • Psychiatrist and long-time cinephile James Charney explores how mental illness is portrayed in classic and contemporary films....

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    • A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry and Mental Illness During the First World War
    • By: Charles Glass
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • Soldiers Don't Go Mad tells for the first time the story of the soldiers and doctors who struggled with the effects of industrial warfare on the psyche.

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