A thorough, witty, and accessible journalistic exploration of the culture of modern psychiatry, focusing on the nascent reconciliation of neuroscience and psychoanalysis—historically opposed approache
Brilliantly combining memoir, biography, and original reporting, Attention looks beyond the ways technology has infiltrated our lives to grapple with the larger questions of what attention is and what
“Everywhere I looked it seemed that we were being defined by what our brains were doing . . . Everywhere, there were hucksters and geniuses, all trying to colonize the new world of the brain.” “I