The Mind Made Flesh

Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-280227-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 214 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Humphrey, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: On Taking Another Look

- 2: One Self: a Meditation on the Unity of Consciousness

- 3: What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made?

- 4: Speaking for Our Selves: an Assessment of Multiple Personality

- 5: Love Knots

- 6: The Uses of Consciousnes

- 7: Farewell, Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing*

- 8: Great Expectations: the Evolutionary Psychology of Faith Healing and the Placebo Effect

- 9: Scientific Shakespeare

- 10: How to solve the Mind Body Problem

- 11: The Privitization of Sensation

- 12: Mind in Nature

- 13: Cave Art, Autism and the Evolution of the Human Mind

- 14: The Deformed Transformed

- 15: Varieties of Altruism and the Common Ground between Them

- 16: Bugs and Beasts before the Law

- 17: The Number of the Beast

- 18: Behold the Man

- 19: Tall Stories from Little Acorns Grow

- 20: Hello Aquarius

- 21: What Shall We Tell the Children?

- 22: Arms and the Man

- 23: Death in Tripoli

- 24: Follow my leader

Über Autor(innen)

Consciousness Regained: Chapters in the Development of Mind (1983), The Inner Eye (1986), A History of the Mind (1992), and Soul Searching (1995).