In this study of psychiatry and neurology, Allan Ropper and BD Burrell ask: does mental illness reside in the brain or the mind? But he became fixated on “hysteria”, a catch-all diagnosis that Victorian doctors applied to unconventional behaviour that defied medical explanation. Yet it left an important legacy: the notion that mental illness can be generated by a biological cause in the brain. But the tug of war over whether mental illness is located in the brain or mind continues. How the Brain Lost Its Mind is published by Atlantic (RRP £17.99).

Source: The Guardian January 03, 2020 07:30 UTC