The darker the night, the brighter the stars : a neuropsychologist's odyssey
Paul Broks ; with drawings by Garry Kennard
- London : Allen Lane, c2018.
- ix, 308 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
9781846145360
Broks, Paul--Mental health Bereavement Psychologists--Biography--Great Britain