Anne Harrington

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Anne Harrington
Born1960 (age 6465)
NationalityAmerican
Occupationprofessor
Years active1994–present
Known forMind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
SpouseJohn Durant [1]
Academic background
Alma mater University of Oxford

In this book Harrington shows that the pathological basis of almost all mental disorders remains as unknown today as it was in 1886. Even as psychiatrists prescribe a widening variety of treatments, none of them can say exactly why any of these biological therapies work. [5] Regarding the "chemical imbalance" theory of mental illness, she writes “Ironically, just as the public was embracing the ‘serotonin imbalance’ theory of depression, researchers were forming a new consensus” about the idea behind that theory: It was “deeply flawed and probably outright wrong.” [5]

A reviewer in The Atlantic wrote: "[I]t’s a tale of promising roads that turned out to be dead ends, of treatments that seemed miraculous in their day but barbaric in retrospect, of public-health policies that were born in hope but destined for disaster." [6]

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References

  1. "Anne Harrington". histsci.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  2. "Harrington, Anne 1960-". WorldCat Identities.
  3. 1 2 "Anne Harrington". histsci.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  4. "Curriculum Vita" (PDF). Harvard University . 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  5. 1 2 3 Greenberg 2019.
  6. Greenberg, Gary (19 March 2019). "Psychiatry's Incurable Hubris". The Atlantic. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  7. Reviews of Medicine, Mind and the Double Brain:
  8. Review of Reenchanted Science:
  9. Reviews of The Cure Within:
  10. Szalai, Jennifer (24 April 2019). "Mental Illness Is All in Your Brain — or Is It?". New York Times. Retrieved 2 December 2019.