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What’s it about?
A gripping history of psychiatry's chaotic journey from asylums and quack cures to Freudian dogma, accidental drug discoveries, and the modern brain lab—revealing how a field once lost in darkness finally found its way toward science and healing.
You’ll learn
- Psychiatry's dark origins in Bedlam and moral treatment
- How Freud's untestable theories dominated for decades
- The accidental discovery of antipsychotic drugs
- Why the future lies in combining drugs and therapy