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The darker the night, the brighter the stars : a neuropsychologist's odyssey Paul Broks ; with drawings by Garry Kennard

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Allen Lane, c2018.Description: ix, 308 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781846145360
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.937092 BR DA
Online resources: 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(Opens below)) Available Jan2019 T0061670

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.

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