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A Text-Book of Psychology, Vol. 1 of 2 by James Sully Book Reviews Book Description The Human Mind by James Sully is an interesting read on the subject of philosophy. Sully was a prominent figure in the psychological world, being one of the founding members of the British Psychological Society and Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic for University College in London. His writings were some of the first on the subject to be written in English and have been commended by well known psychologists such as Freud and Wundt
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Specifically, he opened up the skulls of a few cats and severed their corpus callosums, dividing their brains in two. (Aside from the pain of cutting open the scalp, the surgery didn’t hurt the cats, since the brain itself cannot feel pain.) After the cats recovered, Sperry then taught them to navigate a maze while wearing an eye patch. As expected, after several attempts, these “split-brain” cats could negotiate the twists and turns without trouble. But when Sperry switched the patch to the other eye and put the cat back into the maze, something…
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Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty and choice that animate it. It argues that psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and other psy disciplines have played a key role in inventing our selves,changing the ways in which human beings understand and act upon themselves, and how they are acted upon by politicians, managers, doctors, therapists and a multitude of other authorities
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My favorite book as a small child, hands down, was The Color Kittens. Nothing else came close. Not that I didnt have great fondness for the entire Little Golden Books oeuvre, however. I admit that I enjoyed, for example, The Fuzzy Duckling as well as Nurse Nancy. Even when compared to the unparalleled brilliance of The Color Kittens, Nurse Nancy and The Fuzzy Duckling should not be dismissed. Yet I ll admit the reason I was fond of Nurse Nancy was not because of the timeless story or the vivid, compassionate portrayal of the main character. Instead…
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Kaitlin Gallagher is a PhD Candidate specializing in Biomechanics at the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and a permanent author for GradHacker. You can follow her on twitter at @KtlnG. Over a year ago I wrote a GradHacker piece about books all grad students should read. This year I’m back with some new recommendations: What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast by Laura Vanderkam. This is one of many short books on success and time management that Vanderkam has written. This particular book goes over how…
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