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Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self

Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self

Feinberg, Todd E.

Paperback

Medical ReferenceCognition

ISBN10: 0195152425
ISBN13: 9780195152425
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 2 2002
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
In Altered Egos, Dr. Todd Feinberg presents a new theory of the self based on his first-hand experience as both a psychiatrist and neurologist.
Feinberg introduces dozens of intriguing cases of patients whose disorders have resulted in what he calls altered egos a change in the brain that transforms the boundaries of the self. He describes patients who suffer from alien hand syndrome where one hand might attack the patient's own throat, patients with frontal lobe damage who invent fantastic stories about their lives, paralyzed patients who reject and disown one of their limbs. He then argues that the brain damage suffered by these people has done more than simply impair certain functions--it has fragmented their sense of self.

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