The three-story title sequence captures the underlying layers of the 382-page narrative. About the brain and brain science – neuroscience, its history, state and prospects. About the closest relatives of neuroscience - psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy. About the people involved in this (not excluding the author), about their own psychology and psychiatry, about the destinies, characters and illnesses of researchers and doctors. About mental life, with its suffering, joys, miracles, nightmares, atrocities, insights. About the sick and healthy mind. About life as such. About how to cope with the inevitable and make the impossible possible. I tried, like my other books, to make it a work of art and a tool for self-understanding and understanding of others. Through the fabric of the book there is a workshop on self-help and self-development: 30 new recipes from Doctor Brain. Recipes, of course, in a non-literal medical or culinary sense: take this, add this, mix, grind, fry, take...