'The messy history and brave future of psychotropic drugs'ā O Magazine 'Vivid and thought-provoking' ā Harper'sMagazine 'Ambitious...Slater's depictions of madness are terrifying and fascinating' ā USA Today 'Vigorous research and intimate reflectionā¦highly compelling' ā Kirkus As our approach to mental illness has oscillated from biological to psychoanalytical and back again, so have our treatments. With the rise of psychopharmacology, an ever-increasing number of people throughout the globe are taking a psychotropic drug, yet nearly seventy years after doctors first began prescribing them, we still don't really know exactly how or why they workāor don't work āon what ails our brains. In The Drugs that Changed Our Minds, Lauren Slater offers an explosive account not just of the science but of the people āinventors, detractors and consumers ābehind our narcotics, from the earliest, Thorazine and Lithium, up through Prozac, Ecstasy, 'magic mushrooms', the most cutting-edge memory drugs and neural implants. In so doing, she narrates the history of psychiatry itself and illuminates the signature its colourful little capsules have left on millions of brains worldwide, and how these wonder drugs may heal us or hurt us.
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The Drugs That Changed Our Minds
The history of psychiatry in ten treatments
- 320 pages
- English
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Biological SciencesTable of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Authorās Note
- Introduction
- 1. Chlorpromazine: Awake!
- 2. Lithium: A Salted Stone
- 3. Early Antidepressants: The Three-Ringed Molecule and the Psychic Energiser
- 4. SSRIs: The Birth of Fluoxetine
- 5. Placebos: The Dancing Disease
- 6. Psilocybin (Magic Mushrooms): Godās Flesh
- 7. MDMA (Ecstasy): The Marriage Medicine
- 8. PKMzeta/ZIP (Memory Drugs): The Spotless Mind
- 9. Deep Brain Stimulation: Who Holds the Clicker?
- Epilogue: Where Weāre Headed
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
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