Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs That Changed Our Minds

by Lauren Slater and Dashka Slater

Book Overview

The explosive 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.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316370649
• ISBN13: 9780316370646
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"