Reading Our Minds, Daniel Barron
Reading Our Minds, Daniel Barron
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Reading Our Minds
The Rise of Big Data Psychiatry

Author: Daniel Barron

Narrator: Daniel Barron

Unabridged: 3 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/27/2021


Synopsis

What is Psychiatry and How Can We Improve It?

In the last hundred years, most of the medical sciences have progressed in immense and unforeseeable ways―except for psychiatry, which has somehow remained immune to this progress. Daniel Barron, a psychiatrist who trained at the Yale School of Medicine, asks an important question: What’s holding psychiatry back?

Reading Our Minds takes us to a psychiatric hospital, where Barron evaluates a young woman with psychosis, and shows how his exam is limited by his own ability to ask questions and observe, and by his patient’s ability to sense, interpret, and report her experience. Barron shows why psychiatry must move beyond conversation―and how sensors, measurements, and algorithms might progress psychiatric practice. At once pioneering and engaging, Reading Our Minds introduces readers to the Big Data technologies that might revolutionize the way we evaluate, diagnose, and treat mental illness and bring psychiatry firmly into the fold of 21st-century medical science.

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About The Author

DANIEL BARRON, psychiatry resident at the Yale School of Medicine, asks a provocative and important question: Is psychiatry scientific enough? At once pioneering and engaging, Reading Our Minds introduces readers to a series of digital tools that can help revolutionize psychiatry, and bring the practice firmly into the 21st-century and into the fold of modern medicine.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rebecca

Thank you to NetGalley and Columbia Global Reports for an advanced electronic copy of this book in exchange for an honest review! In this novella-length book, the author explores the lack of measurement used in psychiatry, which makes it a subjective medical field, and how different types of data can......more

Goodreads review by Ashley

Reading Our Minds by Daniel Barron, a psychiatrist and pain management fellow, explores the incorporation of Big Data to improve the practice of psychiatry. The idea of supporting psychiatric assessment with solid data is an appealing one, but many questions come to mind. I was surprised by an appare......more

3.5......more

This book basically explains how hard it is to have evidence of psychological work. Meaning, being a psychiatrist or therapist is all a guessing game. The author goes into detail about the test and measurements that physical doctors can use, to test theories and get actually numerical feedback. Bloo......more

Goodreads review by Adrian

Daniel Barron has written a short, informative book about two things: the promise of "big data psychiatry," as he puts it in the title, and the limits of traditional psychiatry, as he explains throughout. A psychiatrist by trade, the scientific limits of his field are clearly frustrating to Barron—h......more