The Mind Made Flesh
Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:24th Jan '02
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Nicholas Humphrey's writings about the evolution of the mind have done much to set the agenda for contemporary psychology. Here, in a series of riveting essays, he invites us to 'take another look' at a variety of the central and not-so-central issues: the evolution of consciousness, the nature of the self, multiple personality disorder, the placebo effect, cave art, religious miracles, medieval animal trials, the seductions of dictatorship, and much more.
Review from previous edition No other theoretical psychologist is so accessibly clear, and at the same time so provocatively philosophical * Lorna Sage *
His style is by turns elegant, intimate and entertaining. . . This is a far cry from those worthy but tedious collections that one finds gathering dust on library shelves; it is a real page turner * www.human-nature.com 26/02/2002 *
Nobody else brings such an astonishing range of knowledge to bear on these issues * Daniel Dennett *
Humphrey's distinctive prose is the golden bowl in which his ripe and shining theories are held. * Antonella Gambotto *
admirable * Derek Steinberg, Holistic Health *
ISBN: 9780192802279
Dimensions: 214mm x 139mm x 20mm
Weight: 470g
376 pages