The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World - New Edition

Author(s) : Iain McGilchrist

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World - New Edition

Book Details

  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Published : 2019
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 616
  • Category :
    Neuroscience
  • Category 2 :
    Popular Psychology
  • Catalogue No : 94190
  • ISBN 13 : 9780300245929
  • ISBN 10 : 9780300245

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.

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