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LATEST DISCOVERIES0F NEUROSCIENCE  \nSTEPHEN WILSON  \nhttps://archive.org/details/bookofmindkeywri0000step  \nTHE B00K OF THE MIND  \nOTHER BOOKS BY STEPHEN WILSON  \nThe Cradle of Violence:Essays on Psychiatry,Psychoanalysis and LiteratureSigmund Freud (a biography)Introducing the Freud Wars  \nTHE B00K OFTHE MIND  \nKey Writings on the Mind from Plato and the Buddhathrough Shakespeare,Descartes,and Freud to the LatestDiscoveries of Neuroscience  \nEDITED BYSTEPHEN WILSON  \nIntroductions,selection and arrangement copyright ◎2003 by Stephen Wilson  \nFor copyright purposes the acknowledgements pages constitute acontinuation of the copyright page.  \nEvery reasonable effort has been made to trace all copyright holders of illustrative andother copyright material reproduced in this book,but if any have been inadvertentlyoverlooked the publishers would be glad to hear from them.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner what-soever without written permission from the Publisher except in the case of brief quota-tions embodied in critical articles or reviews.For information address Bloomsbury,175Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010.  \nPublished by Bloomsbury,New York and LondonDistributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.  \nISBN I-58234-258-X  \nFirst U.S.Edition 2003  \nI35791o 8642  \nTypeset by Palimpsest Book Production Limited,Polmont,Stirlingshire,ScotlandPrinted in Great Britain by Clays Ltd,St Ives plc  \nIn memory of Anthony Storr(I920-200I),who encouraged me to do this book.  \nPerhaps there is nothing in Nature more pleasing than thestudy of the human mind...  \nJohn Hunter (I728-1793)  \nCONTENTS  \nEditor's prefacexiIntroductionxiiiDiagrams of the Brainxvii  \nI PERCEPTION  \nIntroduction  \nI  \nSensations and Ideas  \n6  \nThe Birth of the Imagination  \nI5  \nThe Work of the Imagination  \n25  \nThe Sense of Continuity  \n32  \nThe Role of Stored Images  \n34  \nPhantoms,Tricks,Visions and Hallucinations  \n36  \nThe Apprehension of Beauty  \n52  \n2 MEMORY  \nIntroduction  \n60  \nThe Value of Memory  \n65  \nThe Trustworthiness of Memory  \n72  \nState-dependent Memory  \n79  \nThe Location of Memory  \n8I  \nBrain Damage and Memory  \n83  \nMemory and Madness  \n88  \nLearning  \n9I  \n3 EMOTION  \nIntroduction  \n95  \nThe Nature of Emotion  \nIOO  \nII3  \nLove  \nMelancholy and Depression  \nII7  \n# THE BOOK OF THE MIND\n\nAngerI29FearI34PhobiaI38HateI39DisgustI46Grief and SorrowI5IThe Emotions of ChildrenI55Brain Damage and EmotionI63Rising above EmotionI67IntroductionI7IConceptual ThoughtI76Origins of ThoughtI82The Physical Effects of ThoughtI9IObsessionI94Good and Bad Thoughts  \n4THOUGHT  \nI97The Thinking OrganI98Schizophrenia2OIDéjà Vu209Behaviourism2IIThe Experience of Thinking2.225 CONSCIOUSNESSIntroduction239The Mind-Body Problem244The Soul254The Effect of the Body on the Mind256The Effect 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