num_pages: 300
description: A troubled childhood. A difficult adolescence. How might these have affected the adult character of Joseph Smith? A psychiatrist, Anderson explores the impact on young Joseph of his family's ten moves in sixteen years, the family's dire poverty (especially after his father's Chinese export venture failed), his father's drinking, his mother's depression, and Joseph's health.
language: English
title: Inside the Mind of Joseph Smith: Psychobiography and the Book of Mormon
titlecomplete: Inside the Mind of Joseph Smith: Psychobiography and the Book of Mormon
genres: Mormonism, Religion, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 28
publisher: Signature Books