Book Review

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

Abstract:

Book Title: Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
By: Laura Delano
Publisher: Viking, March 18, 2025
Language: English
Hardcover: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 1984880489
ISBN-13: 978-1984880482

In Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance, Laura Delano delivers a poignant, provocative, and intensely personal narrative that challenges the conventions of modern psychiatric practice. Drawing from her own experiences within the mental health system, Delano paints a vivid picture of the limitations, contradictions, and, at times, the perils of contemporary psychiatric care. This memoir-manifesto hybrid is not merely a tale of one woman’s escape from the clutches of overmedicalization but a broader call for a paradigm shift in the way mental health is conceptualized, diagnosed, and treated.

Author(s): Joseph Varon, Paul E. Marik

Published: May 7, 2025

ISSN# 3066-2354

https://doi.org/10.71189/JIM/2025/V01N02A12

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