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Burns (chair of social psychiatry, Oxford Univ.) learned about mental illness growing up with a seriously depressed mother who was helped by psychiatry. Initially opposed to pills and electroshock treatment, he came to appreciate their use in her case. Reflecting on his four decades in "medicine's most disputed discipline" in the United States, Britain, and elsewhere around the world, Burns illuminates its advances, controversies, and mistakes. A savvy clinici...Log In or Sign Up to Read More