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Following the sensational Evolution of Consciousness (1991), Ornstein has written a book designed to push psychology further from its place between philosophy and astrology and nudge it closer to science by attempting to tie what we know about the "self" to the organization of various parts of our brains. This is not as profound a book as his last, but it is full of great humor, extraordinarily direct and powerful illustrations, and no small measure of wisdom and insight. Much of Ornstein's work is a synthesis of what others have found, and as a taste of the sort of case he brings forward, none is more telling than the
Following the sensational Evolution of Consciousness (1991), Ornstein has written a book designed to push psychology further from its place between philosophy and astrology and nudge it closer to science by attempting to tie what we know about the "self" to the organization of various parts of our brains. This is not as profound a book as his last, but it is full of great humor, extraordinarily direct and powerful illustrations, and no small measure of wisdom and insight. Much of Ornstein's work is a synthesis of what others have found, and as a taste of the sort of case he brings forward, none is more telling than the story of identical twins, separated at birth, growing up to be compulsively neat. Why, both twins were asked, are you so neat? My mother, one replied: she was so compulsive herself. My mother, the other replied: she was such an absolute slob. Thus we have used psychology to explain what would have been better explained by genes. Ornstein's study, however, is not a simplistic biology-is-destiny attack on traditional psychology; rather, it is a most arresting look at the "self" by one of the most witty and original psychologists writing today.
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Manufacturer: Harper San Francisco
Release date: 24 April 1995
ISBN-10 : 0062507893 |
ISBN-13: 9780062507891
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