The Mind Fixers, a seven-part series of newspaper stories, ran in the Baltimore Evening Sun in July 1984. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
It won the award for Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism1987. The Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism was first introduced in 1985, and continued under that name until 1997. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The series, by Jon Franklin, explores the science of molecular psychiatry. Psychiatrist redirects here. ...
Based upon interviews with more than fifty scientists, the series takes a generally optimistic point of view. Mr. Franklin paraphrases his sources as saying that the new science is "capable of curing the mental diseases that afflict perhaps 20 percent of the population and constitute a major drain on the gross national product," as well as eventually expanding the boundaries of "the normal mind."
As the hard problems of mind are taken seriously, we can expect richer and more fruitful theories to emerge.
Perhaps the next step is to consider that the mind, among all its other splendid mysteries, might also exert a causal influence on the physical world.
In fact, he has convinced me that a real theory of mind needs a theoretical structure that relates consciousness to physics, and that this structure cannot be deduced from physics itself.
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