Reading Minds

by Moskowitz, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781855757141
• ISBN10: 1855757141
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-31
• Publisher: KARNAC BOOKS

Summary

Reading Minds is a practical guide to the cognitive science revolution. With fascinating descriptions of studies of the mind, from the brain scans of lovers and liars in London to the eye movements of babies in Budapest, this book takes the reader into the laboratories of the most innovative psychological researchers around the world. Using anecdotes from everyday life and his clinical practice, renowned psychotherapist and academic Michael Moskowitz shows how to use the insights of science to better understand and relate to others. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Michael Moskowitz PhD is a psychoanalyst and organizational consultant in New York City and an adjunct associate professor in the School of Silver School of Social Work, New York University, as well as being Co-Editor of the journal, Organisational and Social Dynamics. His past positions include CEO and Publisher, Other Press; Publisher, Jason Aronson; Director of the City University of New York Graduate School and Medical School Counseling Offices; and Team Leader, Operation Outreach Vietnam Veterans Center, New Haven, USA. He is author of articles and chapters on psychoanalytic theory, organizational dynamics, morality, and race and ethnicity.

Table of Contents

About the Author	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Reading minds	p. 1
Rock, paper, scissors: it pays to have a theory	p. 21
What the brain tells us about the mind	p. 41
Trauma: how events shape the brain and the mind	p. 73
Ways of understanding	p. 105
Bad feelings	p. 125
Look me in the eye	p. 145
Intimate relationships: reading your family, friends, and lovers	p. 163
Why we don't know what we know	p. 193
References	p. 215
Acknowledgements	p. 227
Index	p. 229
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