In this enthralling work of popular science, respected Harvard
psychiatrist Jordan Smoller addresses one of humankind's most enduring
and perplexing questions: What does it mean to be "normal?" In The
Other Side of Normal, Smoller explores the biological component of
normalcy, revealing the hidden side of our everyday behaviors--why we
love what we love and fear what we fear. Other bestselling works of
neurobiology and the mind have focused on mental illness and abnormal
behaviors--like the Oliver Sacks classic, The Man Who Mistook His Wife
for a Hat--but The Other Side of Normal is an eye-opening,
thought-provoking, utterly fascinating and totally accessible
exploration of the universals of human experience. It will change
forever our understanding of who we are and what makes us that way.