Here's the book behind the NPR interview summary that sciborg2 linked above: "Mind Fixers" by Anne Harrington
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
https://g.co/kgs/b57deo From the conclusion of the introduction:
"I have written this book because I believe that history matters. We perhaps don't need history to see that psychiatry today is not a stable enterprise marked by consensus about mission, but rather a fraught one, where rhetoric still outstrips substance, where trust is fragile, and where the path forward is unclear. But we do need history to understand how we came to be where we are now and therefore what might need to happen next.
Heroic origin stories and polemical counterstories may give us momentary emotional satisfaction by inviting us to despise cartoonish renderings of our perceived rivals and enemies. The price we all pay, though, is tunnel vision, mutual recrimination and stalemate. For the sake not just of the science but of all the suffering people whom the science should be serving, it is time for us all to learn and to tell better, more honest stories"