Human Traces – Sebastian Faulks

Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks
Human Traces – Sebastian Faulks

Human Traces is Sebastian Faulks’ fictional exploration of the quest to find a cure for insanity during the late nineteenth, early twentieth century. Told through the lives of two young men, who meet in Brittany whilst in their teens and who forge a firm friendship focused around gaining a better understanding of the range and causes of what was then called alienism.

The two main leads allow us to follow the two main approaches, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and their evolution from the teachings of Charcot, Darwin and others.

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