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How The Brain Lost Its Mind - Sex, Hysteria, And The Riddle Of Mental Illness

by Allan H. Ropper, Brian Burrell
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Unraveling the Enigma of Mental Illness's Origins

This book is a captivating exploration of the history of mental illness, challenging common misconceptions and unraveling the complexities of the mind. Through the stories of famous individuals throughout history, the authors highlight the limitations of viewing mental illness solely through a neurological lens. With its thought-provoking analysis, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the origins and complexities of mental illness.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

How The Brain Lost Its Mind - Sex, Hysteria, And The Riddle Of Mental Illness

by Allan H. Ropper, Brian Burrell
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ISBN: 9780735214569
Authors: Allan H. Ropper, Brian Burrell
Publisher: Avery
Date of Publication: 2021-07-06
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, Philosophy, History
Related Topics: Mental Health, Health, Medical, Neuroscience, Psychology, History
Goodreads rating: 3.64
(rated by 376 readers)

Description

A noted neurologist challenges widespread misunderstandings about brain disease and mental illness.Why do we think of mental illness as a brain disease? Is there a difference between a sick mind and a sick brain? How the Brain Lost Its Mind , written by a prominent neurologist and a student of medical history, traces the origins of our ideas about insanity and the collision course that simply reduces the mind to the connections between nerve cells. Starting with syphilis of the brain, the disease that made insanity a medical problem and started the field of psychiatry, the authors study a host of famous and infamous characters--among them van Gogh, the Marquis de Sade, Nietzsche, Guy de Maupassant, and Al Capone.How the Brain Lost Its Mind explains how we have twisted ourselves into the medicalization of every minor mood and thought, each with a pill to cure the psychopathology of ordinary daily life. How are we to understand serious disorders such as schizophrenia and Tourette's syndrome, in which the brain under the microscope is entirely normal? By delving into an overlooked history, this book shows how neuroscience and brain scans alone cannot account for a robust mental life, or a deeply disturbed one.
 

Unraveling the Enigma of Mental Illness's Origins

This book is a captivating exploration of the history of mental illness, challenging common misconceptions and unraveling the complexities of the mind. Through the stories of famous individuals throughout history, the authors highlight the limitations of viewing mental illness solely through a neurological lens. With its thought-provoking analysis, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the origins and complexities of mental illness.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.