Doppelgänger: Analysing ‘Doubles' across Antiquity, Fiction, Psychopathology, and Neuroscience - Softcover

Oyebode

Softcover

ISBN 10: 100930576X ISBN 13: 9781009305761

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

The concept of doppelgänger, or 'double' – a conceived exact but sometimes invisible replica of a living person – has fascinated and intrigued people for centuries. This notion has a long history and is a widespread belief among cultural groups around the world. Doppelgängers have influenced literature and cinema, with writers such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Robert Louis Stevenson, and directors like Alfred Hitchcock exploring the phenomenon to great effect. This book brings together the literary and cinematic with empirical scientific literature to raise fundamental questions about the nature of the self and the human mind. It aims to establish the experience of the self and unravel the brain processes that determine bodily representation and the errors that make possible the experience of the doppelgänger phenomenon. This book will appeal to psychiatrists, neurologists, and neuroscientists, as well as interested general readers.

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Professor Femi Oyebode studied medicine at the University of Ibadan, graduating with distinction in 1977. He has been Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham since 1999. He has authored several books, including Mindreadings: Literature and Psychiatry and Sims' Symptoms in the Mind, which has been translated into multiple languages. He has also received numerous accolades, including the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2016.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 100930576X
• ISBN 13: 9781009305761
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 186
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