{"product_id":"how-the-brain-lost-its-mind-by-allan-h-ropper-brian-burrell","title":"How the Brain Lost Its Mind By Allan H. Ropper, Brian Burrell","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2cca01a elementor-align-left elementor-widget elementor-widget-wl-single-product-title\" data-id=\"2cca01a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wl-single-product-title.default\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-widget-container\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a962b14 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a962b14\" data-element_type=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ba4be3f\" data-id=\"ba4be3f\" data-element_type=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-69c29cf elementor-widget elementor-widget-wl-single-product-short-description\" data-id=\"69c29cf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wl-single-product-short-description.default\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementor-widget-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"shopify-section-template--16696108712176__product-description\" class=\"shopify-section shopify-tabs sp-tabs nt_section id_pr_description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"wrap_des_pr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"container container_des\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"tab_des\" class=\"panel entry-content sp-tab des_mb_2 des_style_1 active\" data-id-dest4s=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sp-tab-content rtet4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"authorName__container\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eA noted neurologist challenges the widespread misunderstanding of brain disease and mental illness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow the Brain Lost Its Mind tells the rich and compelling story of two confounding ailments, syphilis and hysteria, and the extraordinary efforts to confront their effects on mental life. How does the mind work? Where does madness lie, in the brain or in the mind? How should it be treated?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThroughout the nineteenth century, syphilis--a disease of mad poets, musicians, and artists--swept through the highest and lowest rungs of European society like a plague. Known as \"the Great Imitator,\" it could produce almost any form of mental or physical illness, and it would bring down a host of famous and infamous characters--among them Guy de Maupassant, Vincent van Gogh, the Marquis de Sade, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Al Capone. It was the first truly psychiatric disease and it filled asylums to overflowing. At the same time, an outbreak of bizarre behaviors resembling epilepsy, but with no identifiable source in the body, strained the diagnostic skills of the great neurologists. It was referred to as hysteria.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor more than a century, neurosyphilis stood out as the archetype of a brain-based mental illness, fully understood but largely forgotten, and today far from gone. Hysteria, under many different names, remains unexplained and epidemic. These two conditions stand at opposite poles of the current debate over the role of the brain in mental illness. Hysteria led Freud to insert sex into psychology. Neurosyphilis led to the proliferation of mental institutions. The problem of managing the inmates led to the abuse of lobotomy and electroshock therapy, and ultimately the overuse of psychotropic drugs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eToday we know that syphilitic madness was a destructive disease of the brain while hysteria and, more broadly, many varieties of mental illness reside solely in the mind. Or do they? Afflictions once written off as \"hysterical\" continue to elude explanation. Addiction, alcoholism, autism, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, depression, and sociopathy, though regarded as brain-based, have not been proven to be so.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn these pages, the authors raise a host of philosophical and practical questions. What is the difference between a sick mind and a sick brain? If we understood everything about the brain, would we understand ourselves? 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