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Author Feinberg, Todd E

Title Altered Egos : How the Brain Creates the Self
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (216 pages)
Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: Soul Searching; Chapter 2 Deconstructing the Self; Chapter 3 Missing Pieces; Familiar Places; Chapter 4 Mything Persons; Chapter 5 Auto-Bodies; Chapter 6 Keeping It All Together; Chapter 7 Journey to the Center of the Mind; Chapter 8 The Nested Hierarchy of the Self and Mind; Chapter 9 Being and Brain; Chapter 10 The Living Mind; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Summary How does the brain create the self? After looking at patients who have undergone a change in the brain that transforms the boundaries of the self, the author presents a model of the self that links the workings of the brain with personal features of the mind, such as meaning, purpose, and being
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192) and index
Notes English
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Subject Neuropsychology.
Brain.
Self.
Brain
Ego
brains.
Brain
Neuropsychology
Self
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780198031192
019803119X
1280837675
9781280837678
9786610837670
6610837678