Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience

In recent years, the advent of MRI technology seems to have unlocked the secrets of the human mind, revealing the sources of our deepest desires, intentions, and fears.

As renowned psychiatrist and scholar Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O.

Lilienfeld demonstrate in Brainwashed, however, the explanatory power of brain scans in particular and neuroscience more generally has been vastly overestimated.