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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Slater, Lauren.     Subjects     Psychopharmacology.     Psychotropic drugs -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Slater, Lauren.       by title:      Blue dreams [sound r...       by call number:      COMPACT DISC 615.788 S631b     Search the Web     Slater, Lauren.     Psychopharmacology.     Psychotropic drugs -- History.       MARC Display

Blue dreams [sound recording] : the science and the story of the drugs that changed our minds / Lauren Slater. by Slater, Lauren. Hachette Audio, 2018. Call #: COMPACT DISC 615.788 S631b Subjects Psychopharmacology.   Psychotropic drugs -- History. ISBN:  9781478900290 (Book on CD) Format:  [sound recording] : Edition:  Unabridged. Description:  12 audio discs (31.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 12 cm. Performers:  Read by Betsy Foldes Meiman. Summary:  Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact remains that nearly seventy years after doctors first began prescribing them, not even their creators understand exactly how or why these drugs work, or don't work, on what ails our brains. The story of the discovery and development of psychiatric medications, as well as the science and the people behind their invention, told by a riveting writer and psychologist who shares her own experience with the highs and lows of psychiatric drugs. The author charts psychiatry's journey from its earliest drugs, Thorazine and lithium, up through Prozac and other major antidepressants of the present. The experimental treatments involving Ecstasy, magic mushrooms, the most cutting-edge memory drugs, placebos, and even neural implants. Slater asks three fundamental questions: how was the drug born, how does it work (or fail to work), and what does it reveal about the ailments it is meant to treat? Slater's exploration casts modern psychiatry's ubiquitous wonder drugs in a new light, revealing their ability to heal us or hurt us, and proving an indispensable resource not only for those with a psychotropic prescription but for anyone who hopes to understand the limits of what we know about the human brain and the possibilities for future treatments. Lauren Slater is the author of Welcome to My Country, Prozac Diary, Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, and Opening Skinner's Box. Genre:  Adult books on CD. Other authors:  Meiman, Betsy Foldes. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction on CD COMPACT DISC 615.788 S631b Adult Compact Discs Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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