The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Book Details
- Publisher : Yale University Press
- Published : 2012
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 544
- Category :
Neuroscience - Category 2 :
Popular Psychology - Catalogue No : 33349
- ISBN 13 : 9780300188370
- ISBN 10 : 0300188374
About the Author(s)
Iain McGilchrist is a former fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and former consultant psychiatrist and clinical director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. He has been a research fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of publications on topics in literature, philosophy, medicine, and psychiatry. McGilchrist is the author of Against Criticism (Faber, 1982), The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World(Yale, 2009), The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning: Why Are We So Unhappy? (Yale, 2012), and is currently working on a project entitled There Are No Things, to be published by Penguin. He lives on the Isle of Skye.