![]() ![]() Category: (P) Professional & Vocational (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Macabre yet humane, unsettling but affecting, he writes about the experiences of his patients and his experience as their psychologist. Paul Broks draws on 15 years as a neuropsychologist to present a narrative about memory and personal identity. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Condition: New. Ray OlsonĬopyright © American Library Association. While he has readers chewing those insoluble nuggets, he tells his patients' and his own riveting stories, at least one of which, "To be two or not to be," is science fiction of the very highest order. Moreover, he posits that dualism is inescapable for consciousness, which demands that each of us discriminate between physical and mental "parts" of the self, despite the inseparability of those parts. He believes there is something in the brain that neuroscience may never find or explain, and that gives each of us the sense of self. ![]() Broks, a psychologist rather than a physician like Sacks, uses cases as jumping-off points for essays in search of personality, unique consciousness, the soul. Sacks relates whole cases, such as "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," laying out the brain physiology and the panoply of behavioral distortions involved in neurological abnormality. English commentators liken Broks to Oliver Sacks, which is high praise but off the mark. ![]()
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