Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of the Subjective Experience

Solms, Mark. Oliver Turnbull. Oliver Sacks

ISBN 10: 1590510356 / ISBN 13: 9781590510353

Verlag: Other Press, 2002

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Near fine octavo hardcover in a like dj. First edition with full number line. No names or markings to text. 8vo. 342pp. Index. Science. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1666832929896

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Titel: Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction ...

Verlag: Other Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 2002

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

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Auflage: 1st Edition

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"Solms and his colleagues are making a brilliant, determined, scrupulous, and (one wants to say) tactful endeavor to approach, in a new way, the oldest question of all—the mysterious relation of body and mind."
—Oliver Sacks, from his Foreword

The Brain and the Inner World is an eagerly-awaited account of a momentous revolution. Subjective mental states like consciousness, emotion, and dreaming were once confined to the realm of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the human sciences. These topics now assume center stage in leading neuroscientific laboratories around the world. This shift has produced an explosion of new insights into the natural laws that govern our inner life.

By two pioneers in the field, The Brain and the Inner World guides us through the exciting new discoveries, showing how old psychodynamic concepts are being forged into a scientific framework for understanding subjective experience.

It is not that the mind is reduced to neurobiology. Rather, thanks to neurobiology, we are free to believe in the power of the mind. The neurosciences will soon be able to argue with Plato, Descartes, James, Freud, and Lacan about the mysterious connections between emotions, experience, will, reason, and creativity.

"This is erudite and fascinating. The authors show us that modern neuroscience allows us to find neurological correlates of some basic psychoanalytical concepts, but in doing so, and this is important, they do not fall into the reductionist explanations so dominant in neuroscience today. Their approach is refreshing and their arguments are well reasoned."
—Lesley Rogers, author of Sexing the Brain