1st Edition

Reading Minds A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution

By Michael A. Moskowitz Copyright 2010
    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    Reading Minds is a practical guide to the cognitive science revolution. With fascinating descriptions of studies of the mind, from the brain scans of lovers and liars in London to the eye movements of babies in Budapest, this book takes the reader into the laboratories of the most innovative psychological researchers around the world. Using anecdotes from everyday life and his clinical practice, renowned psychotherapist and academic the author shows how to use the insights of science to better understand and relate to others.

    Introduction , Reading minds , Rock, paper, scissors: it pays to have a theory , What the brain tells us about the mind , Trauma: how events shape the brain and the mind , Ways of understanding , Bad feelings , Look me in the eye , Intimate relationships: reading your family, friends, and lovers , Why we don't know what we know

    Biography

    Michael Moskowitz