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Total pages original book: 304
Includes a PDF summary of 27 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 18M32S (5.4 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: For most of human history, mental illness has been largely untreatable. Sufferers lived their lives - if they survived - in and out of asylums, accumulating life's wreckage around them.In 1948, all that changed when an Australian doctor and recently returned prisoner of war, working alone in a disused kitchen, set about an experimental treatment for one of the scourges of mankind - manic depression, or bipolar disorder. That doctor was John Cade and in that small kitchen he stirred up a miracle.John Cade discovered a treatment that has become the gold standard for bipolar disorder - lithium. It has stopped more people from committing suicide than a thousand help lines.Lithium is the penicillin story of mental health - the first effective medication discovered for the treatment of a mental illness - and it is, without doubt, Australia's greatest mental health story.
Other categories, genre or collection: Abnormal Psychology, Psychology, Psychiatry, History Of Medicine, Pharmacology, Popular Science, Mental Health Services, Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering
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