Mental Health History

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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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    • The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
    • By: Ron Powers
    • Narrated by: Ron Powers
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 674 ratings
    • New York Times-best-selling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia....

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    • The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
    • By: Iain McGilchrist
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 27 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 575 ratings
    • This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain - the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the "rational" side, the superior partner to the right....

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    • By: Kate Lister
    • Narrated by: Kate Lister
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
    • Based on the popular research project Whores of Yore, and written with her distinctive humor and wit, A Curious History of Sex draws upon Dr. Kate Lister's extensive knowledge of sex history....

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    • Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World
    • By: Larry D. Rosen, Adam Gazzaley
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • In The Distracted Mind, leading psychologist Larry Rosen and pioneering neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley explain why our minds have become addicted to email, text messages, and social media....

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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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    • An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis
    • By: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
    • Narrated by: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-healthcare crisis in the United States....

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    • The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
    • By: Maryanne Wolf
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 447 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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    • An Introduction
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic, and political forces that have shaped our attitudes toward sex....

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    • On Writers and Drinking
    • By: Olivia Laing
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • Olivia Laing's widely acclaimed account of why some of the best literature has been created by writers in the grip of alcoholism....

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    • Psychoanalysis for Beginners
    • By: Sigmund Freud
    • Narrated by: Keneth Maxem
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-12
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Sigmund Freud founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology and was particularly well known for his focus on the unconscious mind....

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    • A Guide to Peak Performance
    • By: H.A. Dorfman, Karl Kuehl, Rick Wolff - foreword
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • In this audiobook, authors H.A. Dorfman and Karl Kuehl present their practical and proven strategy for developing the mental skills needed to achieve peak performance at every level of the game....

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    • The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
    • By: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
    • Narrated by: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,966 ratings
    • The revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's modern classic about the psychology of combat, hailed by the Washington Post as "an illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experiences of having killed"....

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    • Inside the Mind of an American Family
    • By: Robert Kolker
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,106 ratings
    • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with 12 children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease....

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    • The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
    • By: Eric R. Kandel
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • 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 and how mind and brain relate to art....

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    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Considered by many to be Hannah Arendt's greatest work, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. This work was planned as three volumes that would explore the activities of the mind considered by Arendt to be fundamental....

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    • Why Violence Has Declined
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,349 ratings
    • Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen....

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    • Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
    • By: Lauren Slater
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Previously described only in academic journals and textbooks, these often daring experiments have never before been narrated as stories....

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    • On Homecoming and Belonging
    • By: Sebastian Junger
    • Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
    • Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,208 ratings
    • Combining history, psychology, and anthropology, Tribe explores what we can learn from tribal societies about loyalty, belonging, and the eternal human quest for meaning....

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