Ten top books on electroconvulsive Therapy

Ted Scheinman is a writer and editor based in Washington, D.C., where he serves as senior editor at Smithsonian magazine. Before that, he lived in Southern California, where he worked as a senior editor for Pacific Standard magazine. He has taught courses on literature and journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and speaks good French, middling Italian, and surprisingly decent Latin.

His essays and reporting have appeared in the Atlantic, the Chronicle of Higher Education, GQ, The New Republic, the New York Times, The Paris Review, Playboy, Slate, and beyond. He is also a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Scheinman is the author of Camp Austen. His new book is Jolt: My Electric Journey out of Darkness.

At Lit Hub the author tagged ten top books on electroconvulsive therapy, including:

Charles Fernyhough, Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory

Completely reframed my way of thinking about autonoetic consciousness—i.e. the proprietary sense of your memories as belonging to a single self. “Memory is an artist as much as it is a scientist,” Fernyhough writes. As I went about rediscovering certain lost memories, and making peace with the unrecoverable ones, this sharp and compassionate book was an enormous help and comfort.

Read about another entry on the list.

The Page 99 Test: Pieces of Light.

--Marshal Zeringue