Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist

stories trapped in my cells, emotions in my fascia: there was information hidden in my body, and I didn’t know it.

Our sense of who we are depends, in significant part, on our memories. And yet they’re not to be trusted. ‘What is selected as a personal memory,’ writes Professor of psychology and neuroscience Giuliana Mazzoni, ‘needs to fit the current idea that we have of ourselves.’