Lauren Slater‘s Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

In 1988, Lauren Slater became one of the first patients in the US to take Prozac. She also emerged as one of its most poetic chroniclers when she detailed her heady, complex love affair with the drug in “Prozac Diary” (1998). Thirty years since that first book, Slater explores the discovery, invention, science, and people behind today’s drugs that define mind, emotion, and behavior, from the earliest, Thorazine and Lithium, to Ecstasy, “magic mushrooms,” and through today’s most cutting-edge memory drugs and neural implants.