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

Solms, Mark; Turnbull, Oliver

ISBN 10: 1855759829 / ISBN 13: 9781855759824

Published by Karnac Books, 2002

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2nd paper printing. Spine creased and frayed, small label stain on back cover, underlining on EVERY PAGE, notes on a lot of them, including back ep, curling, soil on edge and pages, a few corner folds, binding still good. ISBN as listed but cover different than picture. Seller Inventory # ABE-1627414679131

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Brain and the Inner World: An ...

Publisher: Karnac Books

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fair

Edition: 1st Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

This work is an eagerly awaited account of this momentous and ongoing revolution, elaborated for the general reader by two pioneers of the field. The book takes the nonspecialist reader on a guided tour through the exciting new discoveries, pointing out along the way how old psychodynamic concepts are being forged into a new scientific framework for understanding subjective experience – in health and disease.

About the Author:

Mark Solms is a psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist. He is Professor in Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), Honorary Lecturer in Neurosurgery at the St Bartholomew's and Royal London School of Medicine, Director of the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and Chair of the Research Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is President of the South African Psychoanalytical Association, Associate Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Honorary Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society, and Member of the South African Clinical Neuropsychology Association and of the British Neuropsychological Society. He is a Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, and Honorary Fellow of the American College of Psychoanalysts and of the American College of Psychiatrists. He has won many prestigious awards, including the Sigourney Award. He has authored a multitude of chapters, articles and books including 'The Neuropsychology of Dreams' (1997), and was founding editor of the journal 'Neuropsychoanalysis'.