The Box of the Soul

Lauren Slater

Lauren Slater, PhD in Psychiatry from Boston University, journalist and author of the best-selling Prozac Diaries, presents and explains the 10 experiments that changed Psychology, Psychiatry and our perception of the human mind and soul in the 20th century. In this book, we see how Psychology moves, fatally and inevitably, towards an ever deeper exploration of biological frontiers. We see how Moniz's awkward incisions were transformed or, depending on everyone's point of view, transformed into sterile, bloodless surgery called adduction. We hear about the neuron's internal processes and how genes encode proteins that make up those blue eyes, that memory. …