Volume 44, Number 17 · November 6, 1997
The Set Within the Skull
By Steve Jones
How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker
Norton, 660 pp., $29.95
If you want to find schizophrenia, go to a psychology department. Not among the staff (although some do seem to hear voices inaudible to the rest of us) but within the subject. It has gone from describing varieties of religious experience to censusing them, from phrenology to scanning brains and DNA, and at last—coming full circle—to explaining belief in Darwinian terms. Psychology is a journey from the arts to the sciences and back again.
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