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"A compelling story of the ongoing mission to understand and treat our troubled minds."
Nina MacLaughlin, Boston Globe

"A laudable venture, in which Harrington’s intellectual precision and exacting research cannot be faulted."
Helen Thompson, New York Times Book Review

"Superb…nuanced…In
Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington has written an excellent, engaging guide to what biological psychiatry has accomplished―and not accomplished―so far."
Richard J. McNally, Wall Street Journal

"A tale of promising roads that turned out to be dead ends, of treatments that seemed miraculous in their day but barbaric in retrospect, of public-health policies that were born in hope but destined for disaster…Of value to historians of medicine."
Gary Greenberg, Atlantic

"Harrington’s grasp of this story and the clarity with which, with limited moralism, she delivers a tale about the ‘big picture’ of psychiatry and neurology is emblematic of the historian’s craft."
Stephen T. Casper, Science

"Masterful."
Philip Alcabes, Los Angeles Review of Books

"[An] often shocking but admirably fair and level-headed history."
Simon Ings, New Scientist

"In
Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington offers a provocative and enthralling account of psychiatry’s quest for the holy grail of a biological explanation of mental illness. A well-written, effectively substantiated and devastating story of a research enterprise that has gotten nowhere at great expense, with nonending hype and, in so doing, has weakened a profession that is clinically still useful and, like its patients, deserves much better."
Arthur Kleinman, author of Rethinking Psychiatry

"Anne Harrington masterfully chronicles the hopes―and the hype―surrounding psychiatry’s much-heralded ‘biological revolution’ in this penetrating, capacious, and immensely engaging account. Read
Mind Fixers for an absorbing guided tour through psychiatry’s fractious history and current conflicts."
Elizabeth Lunbeck, author of The Americanization of Narcissism

"Anne Harrington has written a lucid and compelling analysis of the travails of psychiatry as it has attempted to ground its understanding of mental illness in biology. She confronts the gaps between its aspirations and reality with fairness and even sympathy."
Steven E. Hyman, director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research

"A fascinating and wide-ranging unpacking of the field."
Booklist

"A measured, insightful survey of the limits of contemporary treatment for mental illness."
Kirkus Reviews

"A must-read that will interest general readers and medical professionals alike."
Library Journal

"Anyone interested in mental health care’s history and future will appreciate this informative and rewarding survey."
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About the Author

Anne Harrington is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science and faculty dean of Pforzheimer House at Harvard University. She is the author of four books, including Mind Fixers and The Cure Within. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (April 16, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393071227
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393071221
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.38 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.4 x 1.3 x 9.5 inches
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