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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • E. Fuller Torrey's audiobook provides an inside perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program....

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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 197 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 586 ratings
    • In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery....

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    • The Untold Story of Psychiatry
    • By: Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Ogi Ogas
    • Narrated by: Graham Corrigan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 267 ratings
    • Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public....

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    • Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End
    • By: Tia Powell
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Tia Powell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • A noted neurologist challenges the widespread misunderstanding of brain disease and mental illness....

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    • The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco
    • By: Stephan Talty
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • No other event in the last fifty years is shrouded in myth like the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Today, we remember this moment for the 76 people, including 20 children, who died in the fire.

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    • A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
    • By: Gilbert King
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller Devil in the Grove comes the gripping true story of a small town with a big secret....

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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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Psychiatrist and long-time cinephile James Charney explores how mental illness is portrayed in classic and contemporary films....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Jessi Kirby
    • Narrated by: Erin Spencer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • When Olivia awakes in a hospital bed following a near-fatal car accident, she can't remember how she got there....

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    • How Medical Conditions Shaped the Lives of Historical Leaders and Notorious Criminals
    • By: Harvey Castro
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Discover the fascinating intersections of history, medicine, and the human experience in "Illness and Infamy." This captivating book delves into ...

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    • Inside the Mind of a Female Serial Killer
    • By: Jerry Clark, Ed Palattella
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, as "a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer." She had experienced a lifetime of murder, mayhem, and mental illness....

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    • Why a Good Night's Rest Is Vital to a Better, Healthier Life
    • By: Meir Kryger MD
    • Narrated by: Rudy Sanda
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • We spend a third of our lives in bed, but how much do we really understand about what happens when we go to sleep? Enter Dr. Meir Kryger, a world authority on the science of sleep....

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    • By: Allan V. Horwitz
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Post-traumatic stress disorder was recognized as a psychiatric disorder in the latter part of the 19th century. In PTSD, Allan V. Horwitz traces the fluctuations in definitions of and responses to traumatic psychic conditions....

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