Mental Health History

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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: 16-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • A Psychiatrist's Travels Through the History of Mental Illness
    • By: Brendan Kelly
    • Narrated by: Ciaran O'Brien
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In Search of Madness is an exploration of society's changing attitudes towards and attempts to deal with its mentally ill, from the author of The Science of Happiness....

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    • By: Tom Butler-Bowdon
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • Who we are...how we think...what we do....Here are insight and inspiration from 50 key books, including works by Freud, Horney, Jung, Kinsey, Laing, Piaget, and Skinner....

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    • The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
    • By: John Powell
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 20-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • An enthralling investigation into the mysteries of music....

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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: 05-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 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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    • Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf
    • By: Mark Frost
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • Francis Ouimet and Harry Vardon came from different worlds and different generations, but their passion for golf set them on parallel paths that would collide in the greatest match....

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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: 26-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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    • The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
    • By: Edith Sheffer
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry....

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    • The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
    • By: Georgia Bragg
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Best-selling author Georgia Bragg delights young people with her quirky characters and unique subject matter....

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    • An Ethico-Political Bind
    • By: Judith Butler
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power....

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    • Psychoanalysis for Beginners
    • By: Sigmund Freud
    • Narrated by: Keneth Maxem
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 6 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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    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • By: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

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    • A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights
    • By: Prentice Early Sanders, Bennett Cohen
    • Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • On October 20, 1973, in San Francisco, a White couple strolling down Telegraph Hill was set upon and butchered by four young Black men....

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    • How What Was Taboo in 1950s New York Became America's New Normal
    • By: David Rosen
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Sin, Sex & Subversion argues that "deviant" sexuality was subversive, and that unique New York "outsiders" of the 1950s set the stage for the following decades and the world we know today....

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    • Liberated Body, Captive Mind: A World War II POW’s Journey
    • By: Norman Bussel
    • Narrated by: Alpha Trivette
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • This is one soldier's searing and honest story of his battle with post-traumatic stress disorder. A battle that speaks to the hearts and minds of veterans of all wars....

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    • Embrace the Possible
    • By: Edith Eger
    • Narrated by: Edith Eger, Tovah Feldshuh
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,373 ratings
    • In 1944, 16-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimaginable experiences, including being made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele....

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    • By: Kate Lister
    • Narrated by: Kate Lister
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 402 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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    • The Story of How We Came to Talk
    • By: Sverker Johansson, Frank Perry - translator
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users....

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