This imaginative collection of key writings on the human mind - which includes case notes, journals, poetry, fiction, and letters, as well as more formal writings - comprises humanity's most significant attempts to understand our own minds. Psychiatrist Stephen Wilson provides introductions to each of six sections - on perception, memory, emotion, thought, consciousness, and the self - and a linking commentary that sets each excerpt in the context. From Buddha and Aristotle to Descartes and Wittgenstein, from Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Proust, and Beckett to Freud, Jung, Klein, and Sacks, this is a superb overview of great thinkers on human thought. Gedrukt boek, Engels, 2003. Diagrams of the Brain. Perception. Sensations and Ideas. The Birth of the Imagination. The Work of the Imagination. The Sense of Continuity. The Role of Stored Images. Phantoms Tricks Visions and Hallucinations. The Apprehension of Beauty. Memory. The Value of Memory. The Trustworthiness of Memory. State-dependent Memory. The Location of Memory. Brain Damage and Memory. Memory and Madness. Learning. Emotion. The Nature of Emotion. Love. Melancholy and Depression. Anger. Fear. Phobia. Hate. Disgust. Grief and Sorrow. The Emotions of Children. Brain Damage and Emotion. Rising above Emotion. Thought. Conceptual Thought. Origins of Thought. The Physical Effects of Thought. Obsession. Good and Bad Thoughts. The Thinking Organ. Schizophrenia. Deja Vu. Behaviourism. The Experience of Thinking. Consciousness. The Mind-Body Problem. The Soul. The Effect of the Body on the Mind. The Effect of the Mind on the Body. The Validity of Experience. The Identity Theory of Mind. Neural Darwinism. Consciousness Is a Dubious Gift. Materialism. The Mystery of Consciousness. Self. The Ancients. Common Sense. The Galtonian Unconscious. The Freudian Unconscious. Influence. The Kleinian Unconscious. The Jungian Unconscious. The Adlerian Unconscious. The Physiological Unconscious. The Self.