Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry

This is a great book overall but the author's tendency to endorse CBT for seemingly everything is a bit grating. At the end he makes it sound as if stigma is pretty much the only thing keeping people from receiving the psychiatric care they need without much acknowledgement of the fact that economic factors play a large role in people getting that kind of care or not. In his talk about Hollywood's treatment of psychiatry he decides to ignore the fact that abuse is in fact rampant in some clinical settings and that not all professionals are there for the right reason and this still today a lot of people receive a terrible treatment in these institutions and/or leave their attempt at treatment worse off than they started. I understand where he is coming from but when it comes to modern psychiatry this book falls short because of the rose tinted glasses.

That being said it was an interesting read for the history part.