Summary
Karl Deisseroth’s Projections: A Story of Human Emotions is a memoir about his life in psychiatry, the patients he has met, and his efforts as a scientist to solve the mysteries of mental illness. Like many doctors, scientists, and caregivers before him, Deisseroth endeavors to find an emotive language for the psychiatric patients he meets. He accomplishes this by weaving together what he describes as three strands: psychiatric knowledge, technology, and imagination.