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Author:
Karl Deisseroth
Publisher:
Random House
Date:
June 15, 2021
Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher creating and developing the revolutionary field of optogenetics, which uses light to help decipher the brain's workings. In Projections, he combines his knowledge of the brain's inner circuitry with a deep empathy for his patients to examine what mental illness reveals about the human mind and the origin of human feelings--how the broken can illuminate the unbroken.
What The Reviewers Say
Projections describes [Deisseroth's] experience as a clinician and researcher, offering up case studies from his practice and exploring the biological underpinnings of his patients’ conditions.
Stories—sprinkled with clinical and scientific observations, personal and philosophical musings—about challenging and peculiar patients are the core of this book.
Deisseroth, professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, melds the personal with the clinical in his masterful debut on how the human mind works and what can be learned when it goes awry.
