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2023.
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English
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"The acclaimed author of The Unquiet Mind considers the age-old quest for relief from psychic pain and the role of the gifted healer in the journey back to health. "To treat, even to cure, is not always to heal." In this expansive cultural history of the treatment and healing of suffering, Kay Jamison writes about what makes an effective healer, and the role of imagination and memory in the regeneration of the mind. From the trauma of the bloodiest...
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[2013]
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English
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An exposé of the psychiatric profession's bible from a leading psychotherapist that reveals the deeply flawed process by which mental disorders are invented and uninvented--and why increasing numbers of therapy patients are being declared mentally ill.
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2020.
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English
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"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--Provided by publisher.
Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior...
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2021.
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English
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"Grey's Anatomy meets One L in this psychiatrist's funny and moving memoir about his residency at Harvard Medical School"--
Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry resident at one of the most prestigious programs in the country. His new classmates were high achievers from the Ivy League and other elite universities around the nation. Here he pulls back the curtain on the intense and emotionally...
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2022.
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English
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"A sweeping history of American psychiatry-from jails to hospitals to the lab to the analyst's couch-by the award-winning author of Madness in Civilization. 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...
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