About Casey Schwartz
From Casey’s website. Casey Schwartz lives in New York City, where she grew up.
A graduate of Brown University, she holds a Master’s degree in developmental neuroscience and psychoanalysis from University College London.
While she was in graduate school, she found the subject of her first book, In the Mind Fields, a work of non-fiction about the culture clash between the old and the new ways of thinking about the mind and the brain.
Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Departures, and New York, among other publications. Her essay for the New York Times Magazine, Generation Adderall, is the jumping-off point for the book she just wrote, tackling the question of attention in an age of technological onslaught.
Attention: A Love Story
Combining expert storytelling with genuine self-scrutiny, Casey Schwartz details the decade she spends taking Adderall to help her pay attention (or so she thought) and then considers the role of attention in defining our lives as it has been understood by thinkers such as William James, David Foster Wallace, and Simone Weil. From our craving for distraction to our craving for a cure, from Silicon Valley consultants and psychedelic researchers to the findings of trauma expert Dr. Gabor Maté, Schwartz takes us on an eye-opening tour of the modern landscape of attention.
Blending memoir, biography, and original reporting, Schwarz examines her attempts to preserve her authentic life and decide what is most important in it. Attention: A Love Story will resonate with readers who want to determine their own minds, away from the siren call of their screens.
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