Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (814 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316370649 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Lauren Slater is the author of Welcome to My Country, Prozac Diary, Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, and Opening Skinner's Box, among other books. She lives on a farm in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.. She has received numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship
With the rise of psychopharmacology, one in five Americans now takes a psychotropic drug, yet seventy years after doctors first began prescribing them, we still don't really know exactly how or why they work--or don't work--on what ails our brains. As our approach to mental illness has oscillated from biological to psychoanalytical and back again, so have our treatments. A start-to-finish narrative history of our major psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" (Washington Post). In so doing, she
About the Author Lauren Slater is the author of Welcome to My Country, Prozac Diary, Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, and Opening Skinner's Box, among other books. She lives on a farm in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.. Opening Skinner's Box was nominated for best science writing by the Los Angeles Times, and her work has been reprinted numerous times in The Best American Essays. She has received numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT