The Mind Fixers
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The Mind Fixers was a seven-part series of newspaper stories which ran in the Baltimore Evening Sun in July 1984. It was written by Jon Franklin
. It won the award for Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1987.
The series explores the science of molecular psychiatry
. Based upon interviews with more than fifty scientists, Franklin takes a generally optimistic point of view. He 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."
Jon Franklin
Jon Daniel Franklin is an Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. He was born on January 13, 1943 in Enid, Oklahoma. He won the first Pulitzer Prizes for Feature Writing in 1979 and for Explanatory Journalism in 1985, both for his work as a science writer with the Baltimore Evening Sun. Franklin...
. It won the award for Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1987.
The series explores the science of molecular psychiatry
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
. Based upon interviews with more than fifty scientists, Franklin takes a generally optimistic point of view. He 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."