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Title: Humanity more compelling than psychiatry
Review: This book had a lot going on at different levels - family stories, history of psychiatry, World War I - and more. It definitely would have benefited by tighter editing (e.g., removing some of the storylines that went nowhere, shortening the medical lectures and making them less pedantic). And some of the scientific suppositions are so prescient that they are not believable. But I was touched by the human side of the story. CAUTION, SPOILERS AHEAD. Having lost a child (though not in the manner of this book), the parents' sense of loss here brought me to tears. And the irony of a man who spent his life studying the human mind losing his, and being aware of his trajectory, was both heartbreaking and ironic.
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