MixedThe Financial Times\"If this sounds like an ambitious argument, it is. Storr is sweeping rather than rigorous, apt to follow his enthusiasms where they lead. His analysis of the Esalen Institute is interesting but takes up nearly a third of the book; the section on Freud, by contrast, seems rather token and might have been shorter still. When we reach the digital self, however, it is worth the wait. Storr is an electrifying analyst of internet culture, documenting the rise of connectivity in prose that crackles with the energy of the early 21st century.\