The mimetic brain / Jean-Michel Oughourlian ; translated by Trevor Cribben Merrill.

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Oughourlian, Jean-Michel

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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Studies in violence, mimesis, and culturePublisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1609174763
9781609174767

Uniform titles:

Notre troisième cerveau. English

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Electronic books.

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612.8/233 23

LOC classification:

QP360 .O8413 2016eb

NLM classification:

WL 103.5

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Contents:

For a mimetic anthropology -- For a psychiatry of the three brains -- An essay in mimetic nosology -- The dialectic of the rational, emotional, and mimetic brains.

Summary: 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 Ren ̌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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For a mimetic anthropology -- For a psychiatry of the three brains -- An essay in mimetic nosology -- The dialectic of the rational, emotional, and mimetic brains.

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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 Ren ̌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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