PositiveThe Globe and MailThe Disordered Mind picks up themes that surfaced in his previous Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain. There, Kandel unpacked the relationship between ego and id, between the consciousness that creates and the subconscious that fuels one’s artistic drives and desire ... The Disordered Mind explores the science of these conditions, specifically the brain activity and thought patterns that give rise to them ... This is exciting territory, for Kandel offers not a documentation of mental illness as disability, but the science of difference.
