Benjamin Ehrlich

Dreams of Santiago Ramón Y Cajal

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Produktbeschreibung

The Dreams of Santiago Ram¿n y Cajal contains the lost dream diary of the Nobel Prize-winning "father of modern neuroscience" translated into English for the first time. The book explores the complex attitudes of Cajal towards his contemporary Sigmund Freud, whose theories he dismissed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9780190619619
• ISBN-10: 0190619619
• Artikelnr.: 47865474

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Ehrlich is a Salzburg Global Fellow. His work has appeared in Nautilus and New England Review. He is a Co-Founding Editor of The Beautiful Brain, an online magazine devoted to art and neuroscience. Ben graduated from Middlebury College with Highest Honors in Literary Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
A Note on the Translation
Part 1 The Founder of Modern Neuroscience
Chapter 1 Cajal's Legacy
Chapter 2 Cajal and Psychology
Chapter 3 Cajal and Dream Research
Chapter 4 Cajal and Spanish Freudianism
Chapter 5 Comparing the Lives of Cajal and Freud
Chapter 6 The Effects of Hypnosis and Suggestion
Chapter 7 On The Divergence of Psychology and Neuroanatomy
Chapter 8 Cajal's Psyche and His Readings of Freud
Chapter 9 "The Father of Modern Neuroscience" and His Father
Chapter 10 The Dream Diary's Strange Fate
Figures
Part Two The Dream Diary of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Chapter 11 The Dreams of Cajal
Glossary
Bibliography
Index