Projections: A Story of Human Emotions

Projections: A Story of Human Emotions

Hardcover
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Beschreibung

A groundbreaking tour of the human mind that illuminates the biological nature of our inner worlds and emotions, through gripping, moving—and, at times, harrowing—clinical stories

“[A] scintillating and moving analysis of the human brain and emotions.”—Nature

“Beautifully connects the inner feelings within all human beings to deep insights from modern psychiatry and neuroscience.”—Robert Lefkowitz, Nobel Laureate

Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher creating and developing the revolutionary field of optogenetics, which uses light to help decipher the brain’s workings. In Projections, he combines his knowledge of the brain’s inner circuitry with a deep empathy for his patients to examine what mental illness reveals about the human mind and the origin of human feelings—how the broken can illuminate the unbroken.

Through cutting-edge research and gripping case studies from Deisseroth’s own patients, Projections tells a larger story about the material origins of human emotion, bridging the gap between the ancient circuits of our brain and the poignant moments of suffering in our daily lives. The stories of Deisseroth’s patients are rich with humanity and shine an unprecedented light on the self—and the ways in which it can break down. A young woman with an eating disorder reveals how the mind can rebel against the brain’s most primitive drives of hunger and thirst; an older man, smothered into silence by depression and dementia, shows how humans evolved to feel not only joy but also its absence; and a lonely Uighur woman far from her homeland teaches both the importance—and challenges—of deep social bonds.

Illuminating, literary, and essential, Projections is a revelatory, immensely powerful work. It transforms our understanding not only of the brain but of ourselves as social beings—giving vivid illustrations through science and resonant human stories of our yearning for connection and meaning.

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Hardcover
Seitenzahl
256
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18.75 €

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Karl Deisseroth fasst klinisch und ansprechend moderne Erkenntnisse der Hirnforschung zusammen und schafft es so verständlich zu erklären, welche neuronalen Prozesse zur Entstehung von Gefühlen führen. Für mich persönlich war das Buch etwas zu sachlich, aber auf jeden Fall lesenswert.

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Ich liebe die Psychologie und die Krankheiten die hier näher gebracht wurden fande ich sehr gut beschrieben nur das was mich immer wieder daran gehindert hat es zu lesen war das es so sachlich war und teilweise viele Wörter und Begriffe verwendet wurden die ein normalo so nicht kennt und nicht viel damit anfangen kann , jedoch bin ich froh es gelesen zu haben , ich habe definitiv einiges dazu gelernt.

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