Shrinks: the untold story of psychiatry

Introduction: What's wrong with Elena?

Part I: The story of diagnosis. The stepchild of medicine : mesmerists, alienists, and analysts ; Down the garden path : the rise of the shrink ; What is mental illness? : a farrago of diagnoses ; Destroying the Rembrandts, Goyas, and Van Goghs : anti-Freudians to the rescue

Part II: The story of treatment. Desperate measures : fever cures, coma therapy, and lobotomies ; Mother's little helper: medicine at last

Part III: Psychiatry reborn. Out of the wilderness : the brain revolution ; Soldier's heart : the mystery of trauma ; The triumph of pluralism : the DSM-5 ; The end of stigma : the future of psychiatry

Epilogue.