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In recent years, the advancement of MRI technology appears to have unlocked the secrets of the individuals mind, revealing the resources of our deepest desires, intentions, and doubts. As renowned psychiatrist and scholar Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld display in Brainwashed, however, the explanatory ability of brain scans specifically and neuroscience more generally has been greatly overestimated. Although acknowledging its tremendous potential, the authors dispute that the overzealous software of the burgeoning field of brain knowledge has put innocent people in jail, prevented lovers from recovering themselves, and undermined notions of free will and responsibility. A provocative concern to the utilization and abuse of a seductive knowledge, Brainwashed provides an essential corrective to determinist explanations of individuals behavior.
