The Bloomsbury Book Of The Mind

The Bloomsbury Book of the Mind is a riveting collection of key writings on the mind from all over the world, encompassing both the earliest recorded accounts a... » 

The Bloomsbury Book of the Mind is a riveting collection of key writings on the mind from all over the world, encompassing both the earliest recorded accounts and the most up-to-date research. Including case notes, journals, poetry, fiction and letters as well as more formal writings, the extracts are linked with a commenatry by practising psychotherapist Stephan Wilson and form a discussion that ranges from the big philosophical questions to the quirkier mysteries of the human mind. With contributors ranging from Descartes to Proust and the Buddha to Philip ROth, The bloomsbury Book of Mind is a lively conversation across the ages, representing humanity's most significant attempts to understand the mind and its workings. «