Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over green boards, silver lettering on spine, red endpapers. Robert Ornstein, the late Stanford psychologist, was "gifted with the ability to expound difficult ideas simply." That is the case with "Multimind" in which he breaks down traditional barriers between for example, science and religion, that have hampered understanding of what our brains are and how they work. Some lightly pencilled underlining throughout, else fine; otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket is very lightly soiled with one small open tear on the front panel, else fine. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 206 pp.

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Title

Multimind: A New Way of Looking at Human Behavior

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston

Publication Date

1986

Language

English

ISBN 10

0395411076

ISBN 13

9780395411070

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition. First Printing.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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Synopsis

Elaborates a new concept of how the human mind works, on the paradigm of a "mental operating system" composed of diverse separate components with special functions, and discusses split personality and other forms of psychosis in terms of the new concept

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The author of The Psychology of Consciousness here defines the human mind as a "bastard hybrid system." Each of us has many "small minds" that simultaneously process feelings, fantasies, ideas, fixed routines, interpersonal responses and bodily skills. While Ornstein's "multimind" theory is more descriptive than explanatory, it offers a welcome alternative to trendy computer models, split-brain theories and Freudianism. Multimind helps explain why our emotions and attitudes are easily swayed, the difficulty of ever really knowing oneself or another person, and how mental shortcuts we rely on to make snap judgments can harden prejudices. Ornstein faults the narrowness of IQ tests by stressing the varied abilities that make up intelligence. He cites studies of hypnosis and multiple personality in support of the view tht several minds can coexist in one person. It's worth heeding his axiom, "Whatever enters consciousness is greatly overemphasized."
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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