Into the Silent Land Travels in Neuropsychology

by Broks, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780802141286
• ISBN10: 0802141285
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-13
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press

Summary

A finalist for The Guardian First Book Award, and hailed as "a tour-de-force intertwining of the clinical, the personal, the fictive, and the philosophical" (Kirkus Reviews), Into the Silent Land is a stunning look into how the human brain constructs a "self," or the essence of who we are as individuals. A neuropsychologist with twenty-five years' experience and a runner-up for the prestigious Wellcome Trust Science Prize, Paul Broks fuses his own case studies, personal vignettes, philosophical debate, and thought-provoking riffs and meditations into a series of narratives that not only delve into the inner lives of his patients, but into a deeper understanding of how we define who we are. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Paul Broks is Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Neuropsychology at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. He was formerly Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield. He writes regularly about his work for the British magazine Prospect and has been published in Granta and the Daily Telegraph

Table of Contents

Swallowing the Dark
Different Lives	p. 3
The Space behind the Face	p. 17
The Seahorse and the Almond	p. 22
The Sword of the Sun	p. 39
Soul in a Bucket	p. 42
In the Theatre	p. 57
A-Z	p. 65
The Mirror	p. 67
The Visible Man	p. 71
The Spark in the Stone
I Think Therefore I Am Dead	p. 89
Vodka and Saliva	p. 105
Body Art	p. 114
The Story of Einstein's Brain	p. 117
Articles of Faith	p. 123
Right This Way, Smiles a Mermaid	p. 132
No Water, No Moon
The Ghost Tree (1)	p. 147
The Ghost Tree (2)	p. 158
The Dreams of Robert Louis Stevenson	p. 171
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)	p. 181
Mr Barrington's Quandary	p. 196
Out of Darkness Cometh Light	p. 200
To Be Two or Not to Be	p. 204
Gulls	p. 226
Further Reading	p. 237
Acknowledgements	p. 246
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