Daniel Bergner is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of five previous books of nonfiction: the New York Times bestselling Sing for Your Life, What Do Women Want?, The Other Side of Desire, In the Land of Magic Soldiers, and God of the Rodeo. His writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, Harper’s Magazine, Mother Jones, Talk, and The New York Times Book Review. In the early 1960s, JFK declared that science would take us to the moon and cure psychiatric illnesses with breakthrough medications. And while we were walking on the moon within a decade, psychiatric cures continue to elude us – as does the mind itself. Recounting his brother’s journey (who, diagnosed as bipolar, took heavy doses of medications with devastating side effects), alongside the stories of Caroline, beset by hallucinations, and David, overtaken by depression, Bergner examines the evolution of how we treat our psyches. The Mind and the Moon: My Brother’s Story, the Science of Our Brains and the Search for Our Psyches (Ecco) raises profound questions about how we understand ourselves and the essential human divide between our brains and our minds.