Infectious Madness : The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness

from Sovranty

The idea: some mental and emotional "illnesses" are not diseases of the of the mind but are actually signs or symptoms of a biological disease or its aftermath. This was such an interesting theory on the spread, contraction and display of mental and emotional illnesses. The first three-quarters o...

from triscuit

Fascinating read - complex and at times confusing to the layman but it is much more accessible than an academic scientific journal article. We live in an environment of microbes. The author delves into the history germ theory in modern medicine and more specifically looks at the effects of pathog...

from Writermala

This is a heavy book. I was attracted by the title and thought it might be easy reading. Well it was not. It turns out this book was part of the author's Master's thesis. It was, therefore, a scholarly work. I learned a lot from this book and in particular a lot about the mind body connection. Wo...

from locriian

This book was ok. I wish it had given more in depth discussion and explanations of things, there were definitely a lot of points where it would mention something and I'd be expecting more in the next paragraph and... It would go on to another topic! But I think this is mostly due to there actuall...