The man who wasn't there : investigations into the strange new science of the self /
Ananthaswamy, Anil,author.
Includes index.
First published: Dutton, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The living dead. Who is the one who says, "I don't exist"? -- The unmaking of your story. Memories, a person, a narrative-- and it's unraveling -- The man who didn't want his leg. Is the feeling that you own your body and its various parts based on reality? -- Tell me I'm here. When your actions don't feel like your own and what it does to the self -- I am as if a dream. The role of emotions in the making of the self -- The self's baby steps. What autism tells us about the developing self -- When you are beside yourself. Out-of-body experiences, doppelgängers, and the minimal self -- Being no one, here and now. Ecstatic epilepsy and the unbounded self -- Epilogue.
Neuropsychology.
Identity (Psychology)
Mind and body.
Identity (Psychology)
Mind and body.
Neuropsychology.
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