Go/No-Go

“Marianne Apostolides’ Go/No-Go is an incisive, compelling, and brilliant look at the latest trends in mental health treatment and research. With a deft hand, Apostolides untangles the work of researchers attempting to engineer the human mind and charts the turn from community-based health care and evidence-based treatment to computational psychiatry and precision medicine. Intimate and revolutionary, Go/No-Go is required reading for anyone with a stake in mental health care.” –Miranda Newman, author of Rough Magic: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder

“Go/No-Go is a deeply considered and mature love letter to science–as complex and nuanced as any such study must be in an era of over-simplification. Readers who, like Apostolides, feel connected to mental health research will find in it an empathetic guide to new cognitive science. Scientists and clinicians themselves can read it as a fix to the false ‘love it or leave it’ polarization that undermines high-stakes research–and as an opportunity to bridge complex neuroscience with the daily lives of people living with mental health disorders. ‘This (book) is an effort to understand the theories and methods of mental health research so that we, as non-scientists, can know what is possible (and needed and wanted) in our own care, ’ Apostolides writes. Her hope that we ‘place all interventions in the context of human relationships, ’ is surely the foundation of a healthy approach to mental illnesses that burden all of our communities.” –Robert Steiner, Director, Dalla Lana Fellowship in Journalism and Health Impact, University of Toronto

Marianne Apostolides is an award-winning author of eight books, which have been translated and published in over a dozen countries. Her books include I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind (finalist for the Foreword INDIES Award in Science Fiction), Deep Salt Water, Voluptuous Pleasure (listed among the Globe and Mail’s Top 100 Books of 2012), and Swim. She is a two-time recipient of the Chalmers Arts Fellowship and winner of the K.M. Hunter Award for Literature. Apostolides grew up in suburban New York and lives in Toronto, Canada.