Healing the soul - not medicating the brain - is the root meaning and true purpose of psychiatry, writes psychiatrist Elio Frattaroli in this landmark book. He chides his profession for treating symptoms rather than people, imagining it can fix anything with a pill, and denying the very existence of the soul. Drawing on physics, philosophy, literature and psychology, he advocates a science that views anxiety not merely as a chemical imbalance in the brain, but as a wake-up call for the soul.