It remains unclear whether Freud was a genius, a comprehensive absurdity or something in between: A review of The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days by Mark Edmundson. From The Believer, Hobson’s Choice: Psychoanalysis turns all psychiatrists into literature critics; what does it do to neuroscientists studying the brain during dreams? The Autumn of the Multitaskers: Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. One man’s odyssey through the nightmare of infinite connectivity. A review of Psychiatry in the Scientific Image by Dominic Murphy. From TLS, the births of the asylum and of psychiatry were intimately linked, and the buildings themselves a central part of the effort to treat madness: A review of The Architecture of Madness: Insane asylums in the United States by Carla Yanni. From Wired, an interview with Oliver Sacks on earworms, Stevie Wonder and the view from Mescaline Mountain; and from The New Yorker, Oliver Sacks on the most extreme amnesia.
