The Mind and the Moon: My Brother's Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches

by Daniel Bergner

Book Overview

"A profound and powerful work of essential reporting." --The New York Times Book Review

An important--and intimate--interrogation of how we treat mental illness and how we understand ourselves

In 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0063004895
• ISBN13: 9780063004894
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"