Anne Harrington is a Harvard University professor specializing in the history of psychiatry, neuroscience, and the other mind and behavioral sciences. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Science from Oxford University. Interdisciplinary collaboration across science and the humanities has been an important goal of her work as a scholar for many years.
Anne previously co-directed Harvard’s Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative; was a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mind-Body Interaction; and served on the board of the Mind and Life Institute, dedicated to collaboration between the sciences and various contemplative traditions. She is the author of four books: Medicine, Mind and the Double Brain; Reenchanted Science; The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine; Mind Fixers: Biology’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness.
