Anne Harrington has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 8 ratings. The most-rated is Mind Fixers.
Mind Fixers
Summary
The story of the unfulfilled quest to find the biological basis of mental illness, and its profound effects on patients, families, and American society. In the 1980s, American psychiatry announced that it was time to toss aside Freudian ideas of mental disorder because the true path to understanding and treating mental illness lay in brain science, biochemistry, and drugs. This sudden call to revolution, however, was not driven by any scientific breakthroughs. Nor was it as unprecedented as it seemed. Why had previous efforts stalled? Was this latest call really any different? In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington offers the first comprehensive history of the troubled search for the biological basis of mental illness. She makes clear that this story is not just about laboratories and clinical trials, but also momentous public policies, acrid professional rivalries, cultural upheavals, grassroots activism, and profit-mongering. Harrington traces a consistent thread of over-promising and frustrated hopes. Above all, she helps us understand why psychiatry’s biological program is in crisis today, and what needs to happen next.
©2019 by Anne Harrington. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
The Cure Within
Summary
"A splendid history of mind-body medicine...a book that desperately needed to be written." --Jerome Groopman, New York Times Is stress a deadly disease on the rise in modern society? Can mind-body practices from the East help us become well? When it comes to healing, we believe we must look beyond doctors and drugs; we must look within ourselves. Faith, relationships, and attitude matter. But why do we believe such things? From psychoanalysis to the placebo effect to meditation, this vibrant cultural history describes mind-body healing as rooted in a patchwork of stories, allowing us to make new sense of our suffering and to rationalize new treatments and lifestyles.
©2008 by Anne Harrington. "Miss Gee" by W. H. Auden, from Collected Poems, edited by Edward Mendelson. © 1940 and renewed 1968 by W.H. Auden. Used by permission of Random House, Inc. and Faber and Faber Ltd. "Adelaide's Lament" by Frank Loesser, from Guys and Dolls. © 1950. Renewed Frank Music Corp. All rights reserved. "Personal Stress Assessment" by Robert Sward, from Four Incarnations: New & Selected Poems, 1957-1991, Coffee House Press, 1991. Reprinted by permission of the author. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.