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Stranger in the Mirror - The Scientific Search for the Self (Paperback)
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Stranger in the Mirror - The Scientific Search for the Self (Paperback)
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Who are we? Where is the boundary between us and everything else?
Are we all multiple personalities? And how can we control who we
become? From distinguished psychologist Robert Levine comes this
provocative and entertaining scientific exploration of the most
personal and important of all landscapes: the physical and
psychological entity we call our self. Using a combination of case
studies and cutting-edge research in psychology, biology,
neuroscience, virtual reality and many other fields, Levine
challenges cherished beliefs about the unity and stability of the
self - but also suggests that we are more capable of change than we
know. Transformation, Levine shows, is the human condition at
virtually every level. Physically, our cells are unrecognizable
from one moment to the next. Cognitively, our self-perceptions are
equally changeable: A single glitch can make us lose track of a
body part or our entire body, or to confuse our very self with that
of another person. Psychologically, we switch back and forth like
quicksilver between incongruent, sometimes adversarial sub-selves.
Socially, we appear to be little more than an ever-changing troupe
of actors. And, culturally, the boundaries of the self vary wildly
around the world - from the confines of one's body to an entire
village. The self, in short, is a fiction: vague, arbitrary, and
utterly intangible. But it is also interminably fluid. And this
unleashes a world of potential. Engaging, informative, and
ultimately liberating, Stranger in the Mirror will change forever
how you think about your self - and what you might become.
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