Mind and the Moon - My Brother's Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches (Bergner Daniel)(Pevná vazba)

"A profound and powerful work of essential reporting." --The New York Times Book ReviewAn important--and intimate--interrogation of how we treat mental illness and how we understand ourselvesIn the early 1960s, JFK declared that science would take us to the moon. He also declared that science would make the "remote reaches of the mind accessible" and cure psychiatric illness with breakthrough medications. We were walking on the moon within the decade. But today, psychiatric cures continue to elude us--as does the mind itself. Why is it that we still don't understand how the mind works? What is the difference between the mind and the brain? And given all that we still don't know, how can we make insightful, transformative choices about our psychiatric conditions?When Daniel Bergner's younger brother was diagnosed as
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