Choix De Rapports, Opinions Et Discours Prononcés À La Chambre Des Députés Par Mm. Benjamin Constant, Foy, Manuel, Casimir Perrier, Girardin, Camille Jordan, Lafayette...... (French Edition)
By Paul Broks
When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understand how the brain gives rise to the soul. The result of that journey is a gorgeous, evocative meditation on fate, death, consciousness, and what it means to be human.The Darker the Night, The Brighter the Stars weaves a scientist’s understanding of the mind – its logic, its nuance, how we think about what makes a person – with a poet’s approach to humanity, that crucial and ever-elusive why. It’s a story that unfolds through the centuries, along the path of humankind’s constant quest to discover what makes us human, and the answers that consistently slip out of our grasp. It’s modern medicine and psychology and ancient tales; history and myth combined; fiction and the stranger truth.But, most importantly, it’s Broks’ story, grounded in his own most fascinating cases as a clinician—patients with brain injuries that revealed something fundamental about the link between the raw stuff of our bodies and brains and the ineffable selves we take for who we are. Tracing a loose arc of loss, acceptance, and renewal,he unfolds striking, imaginative stories of everything from Schopenhauer to the Greek philosophers to jazz guitarist Pat Martino in order to sketch a multifaceted view of humanness that is as heartbreaking at it is affirming.
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Choix De Rapports, Opinions Et Discours Prononcés À La Chambre Des Députés Par Mm. Benjamin Constant, Foy, Manuel, Casimir Perrier, Girardin, Camille Jordan, Lafayette...... (French Edition)
By Paul Broks
When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understand how the brain gives rise to the soul. The result of that journey is a gorgeous, evocative meditation on fate, death, consciousness, and what it means to be human.The Darker the Night, The Brighter the Stars weaves a scientist’s understanding of the mind – its logic, its nuance, how we think about what makes a person – with a poet’s approach to humanity, that crucial and ever-elusive why. It’s a story that unfolds through the centuries, along the path of humankind’s constant quest to discover what makes us human, and the answers that consistently slip out of our grasp. It’s modern medicine and psychology and ancient tales; history and myth combined; fiction and the stranger truth.But, most importantly, it’s Broks’ story, grounded in his own most fascinating cases as a clinician—patients with brain injuries that revealed something fundamental about the link between the raw stuff of our bodies and brains and the ineffable selves we take for who we are. Tracing a loose arc of loss, acceptance, and renewal,he unfolds striking, imaginative stories of everything from Schopenhauer to the Greek philosophers to jazz guitarist Pat Martino in order to sketch a multifaceted view of humanness that is as heartbreaking at it is affirming.
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Reviewed by kenI took copious notes from this beautiful book, mostly of the literary references to Greek myth, but also of neuro/psychology terms and theories because it excites me, thinking of talking about these things to my psych nerd of a partner. The question, <i>What is the point of living?</i> followed by, <i>How best to live?</i> will haunt me for the rest. Also, there's a push to make me read Camus, and I'm just hoping it won't make me spiral. Without this text, I don't know how I would have encountered things like, Capgras Delusion Syndrome, Cotard's Syndrome, and a variety of neuropsychological concerns. I didn't even know I'm all that into neuropsychology, at least, not until this book explores the connection of the mind and the self. I'm sure there's a lot of books expounding on that; it just doesn't express it under the framework of grief. All I can really say is that, when I first started reading this in a bubble tea shop while waiting for my brother to finish getting a massage, I got too choked up after reading the prologue and the first few pages of chapter one. Why? I don't know. But it might have to do with the realization over the fact that my grief over my father's death has to do with my mother losing her husband as opposed to me losing my father. Weird, right?