The darker the night, the brighter the stars : a neuropsychologist's odyssey
By: Broks, Paul
Title By: Kennard, Garry [Drawings by]
Publisher: London : Allen Lane, c2018.Description: ix, 308 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781846145360Subject(s): Broks, Paul -- Mental health | Bereavement | Psychologists -- Great Britain -- BiographyDDC classification: 155.937092 BR DA Online resources: Location Map
Summary:
A man's wife dies. What next? The next day is next, and the next, and so on. He smothers his sorrow and gets on with the days. He's a Stoic. Tranquillity is the goal, but his brain won't rest. As a neuropsychologist, he has spent a career trying to fathom the human brain, but now, he comes to realize, his brain is struggling to make sense of him - probing, doubting, reconstructing. Combining neurological case stories and memoir, and with excursions into speculative fiction and mythology, this is an audaciously original, deeply personal meditation on grief, time and selfhood.
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 155.937092 BR DA (Browse shelf) | Available | Jan2019 | T0061670 |
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| 155.89 HO CU Culture's consequences : | 155.89 HO CU Culture's consequences : | 155.9042 CH MI Mindfulness in Eight Weeks : | 155.937092 BR DA The darker the night, the brighter the stars : | 156 ZI SO Sociocultural psychology on the regional scale | 158 GR LA The laws of human nature | 158 HA EX Excellence through mind-brain development : |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-306)
A man's wife dies. What next? The next day is next, and the next, and so on. He smothers his sorrow and gets on with the days. He's a Stoic. Tranquillity is the goal, but his brain won't rest. As a neuropsychologist, he has spent a career trying to fathom the human brain, but now, he comes to realize, his brain is struggling to make sense of him - probing, doubting, reconstructing. Combining neurological case stories and memoir, and with excursions into speculative fiction and mythology, this is an audaciously original, deeply personal meditation on grief, time and selfhood.