RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewNobody’s Normal shows how a society’s needs and prejudices shape how it deals with mental illness, from the regrettable asylums and lobotomies of past centuries to the recent corporate trend of recruiting employees with autism. Grinker makes an edgier point, too: that cultural circumstances — whether in combat or on a college campus — can influence how someone expresses psychological pain ... The book sings with the empathetic and authoritative voice of Grinker, whose studies have investigated how autism is perceived across the world.
