The author is Harvard history professor, and the book documented psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. The conundrum of psychiatry is that it tried to define itself as a branch of medical science but failed to find much biological explanation for most of ailment it tried to help: schizophrenia, depression and bipolar depression. And most of drugs psychiatrist relied on today are found decades earlier, and due to awareness of placebo effects and patient's awareness of severe side effect, drug companies seems to lost interest in developing new drugs for psychiatry.
The root cause for the stalling of psychiatry today is the lack of breakthrough in understanding in biomedical terms of mental illness.
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