Anne Harrington

Harrington obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1982. She then attended the University of Oxford, where she earned a doctorate in modern history, specializing in the history of science, in 1985. She returned to Harvard in 1988, after holding postdoctoral positions in London and Freiburg, joining the Department of the History of Science as an assistant professor. She was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and full professor four years later. Since 2011, she became director of undergraduate studies.{{cite web|url=https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/hos/files/harringtoncv2012_final.pdf |title=Curriculum Vita |website=Harvard University |year=2012 |accessdate=October 28, 2019}}

At Harvard, Harrington has taught courses on "Madness and Medicine", "Evolution and Human Nature", "Broken Brains", “Stories under the Skin”, "Freud and the American Academy", "The Minded Body" and "In Search of Mind".{{Cite web|title=Anne Harrington|url=https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/anne-harrington|access-date=2021-06-30|website=histsci.fas.harvard.edu|language=en}}

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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.{{sfn|Greenberg|2019}} 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.”{{sfn|Greenberg|2019}}

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."{{Cite web|last=Greenberg|first=Gary|author-link=Gary Greenberg (psychologist)|date=2019-03-19|title=Psychiatry's Incurable Hubris|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/mind-fixers-anne-harrington/583228/|access-date=2021-06-30|website=The Atlantic|language=en}}

• Jon Franklin's pulitzer prize winning series The Mind Fixers

• Medicine, Mind and the Double Brain (1987)Reviews of Medicine, Mind and the Double Brain:
• {{cite journal|first=Ruth |last=Harris |title=none |journal=The British Journal for the History of Science |volume=23 |number=3 |year=1990 |pages=371–373 |jstor=4026790|doi=10.1017/S0007087400044332 |s2cid=145226752 }}
• {{cite journal|first=Sharon E. |last=Kingsland |title=none |journal=Journal of the History of Biology |volume=22 |number=1 |year=1989 |pages=177–178 |jstor=4331083}}
• Reenchanted Science (1997)Review of Reenchanted Science:
• {{cite journal|first=Kristie |last=Macrakis |title=none |journal=German Politics and Society |volume=16 |number=3 |year=1998 |pages=150–153 |jstor=23737382}}
• The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (2007)Reviews of The Cure Within:
• {{cite news|first=Jerome |last=Groopman |authorlink=Jerome Groopman |title=Faith and Healing |work=The New York Times |date=January 27, 2008 |accessdate=October 26, 2019 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/books/review/Groopman-t.html}}
• {{cite journal|last=Clarfield |first=A. Mark |title=none |journal=New England Journal of Medicine |volume=359 |number=4 |year=2008 |page=440 |doi=10.1056/NEJMx080024 |doi-access=free }}
• The Dalai Lama at MIT (co-edited with Arthur Zajonc, 2008)
• {{cite book|title=Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness|last=Harrington|first=Anne|publisher=Norton|date=2019|isbn=9780393071221}}{{sfn|Greenberg|2019}}{{cite news |last1=Szalai |first1=Jennifer |title=Mental Illness Is All in Your Brain — or Is It? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/books/review-mind-fixers-psychiatry-biology-mental-illness-anne-harrington.html |accessdate=2 December 2019 |work=New York Times |date=24 April 2019}}

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• {{cite news |author-link=Gary Greenberg (psychologist)|last1=Greenberg |first1=Gary |title=Psychiatry's Incurable Hubris |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/mind-fixers-anne-harrington/583228/ |accessdate=2 December 2019 |work=The Atlantic |issue=April 2019}}

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==External links==

• {{cite web|title=Shulman Lectures - Anne Harrington, "Mindful Minds, Different Brains|publisher=Yale University|website=YouTube|date=June 7, 2017|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-H5IBM6pT0}}
• {{Cite web |title=Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness - Harvard Book Store |url=https://www.harvard.com/book/mind_fixers_psychiatrys_troubled_search_for_the_biology_of_mental_illness/ |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=www.harvard.com}}

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