What made John Lennon's killer pull the trigger and pushed James Belushi to the edge of the drug abyss? What drove Virginia Woolf crazy and caused Dostoevsky's uncontrollable gambling addiction? What inspired Winston Churchill to take up painting and Bill W. to create Alcoholics Anonymous, which today saves hundreds of thousands of people around the world? David Kessler, MD, calls this a “grab.” More than forty amazing stories about the captured minds of world-famous people and those whose stories were known only to psychotherapists. Based on the research of philosophers, psychologists and modern advances in neuroscience, Dr. Kessler reveals a mechanism that can quickly and quietly make our mind hostage to thoughts, events, people - the “capture” mechanism.