The Mimetic Brain
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
ISBN-10
1611861896
ISBN-13
9781611861891
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Imprint
Michigan State University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 2016
Print length
242 Pages
Weight
966 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.80 cms
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Offering up clinical studies and a complete reevaluation of classical psychiatry, Oughourlian explores the interaction among reason, emotions, and imitation and reveals that rivalry - the blind spot in contemporary neuroscientific understandings of imitation - is a misunderstood driving force behind mental illness.
The discovery of mirror neurons in the 1990s led to an explosion of research and debate about the imitative capacities of the human brain. Some herald a paradigm shift on the order of DNA in biology, while others remain skeptical. In this revolutionary volume Jean- Michel Oughourlian shows how the hypotheses of René Girard can be combined with the insights of neuroscientists to shed new light on the “mimetic brain.” Offering up clinical studies and a complete reevaluation of classical psychiatry, Oughourlian explores the interaction among reason, emotions, and imitation and reveals that rivalry—the blind spot in contemporary neuroscientific understandings of imitation—is a misunderstood driving force behind mental illness. Oughourlian’s analyses shake the very foundations of psychiatry as we know it and open up new avenues for both theoretical research and clinical practice.
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