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#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Do You Write a Book About Psychiatric Disorder?
Each chapter, each story, it's about a different human being with different classes of psychiatric disorder. For each chapter, I had to put myself into a different mode to capture that inner feeling of the disorder. In the story about mania, which is a very expansive, exuberant, at least briefly uplifting state where the words come out in a torrent and they're complex and pressured and elaborate. And then in the Schizophrenia or Psychosis chapter, where things slowly fragment over time and become looser and separated, I tried to capture that in the writing too. So for each, it wasn't as if there was a single mode I could be in for the whole book
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