Some years ago, the Harvard psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg commented that, in the course of his lifetime, his discipline had swung from the brainless psychiatry propounded by psychoanalysts to the mindless psychiatry of those enamoured of biological reductionism and neuroscience.
Camilla Nord, who runs a neuroscience laboratory at Cambridge, is firmly a member of the latter camp.
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