Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology - Hardcover

Broks, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871139014 ISBN 13: 9780871139016

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 2003

Synopsis

A leading neuropsychologist journeys into the mysteries of his field in a collection of narratives that explore the world of the neurologically impaired.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Broks is senior clinical lecturer and honorary consultant in neuropsychology at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth.

From Booklist:

English commentators liken Broks to Oliver Sacks, which is high praise but off the mark. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Ray Olson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0871139014
• ISBN 13: 9780871139016
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208