Chris Frith, “In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind” (Open Agenda, 2020)
New Books in Neuroscience
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Scis Phrenia
In the fifties and sixties, if you saw someone walking along the street talking to themselves, they were skits of fenick. I mean, that theyre nowadays, i'm not quite sure how true it is now, but certainlyte syal. If you say skitzophinia, people think split mind, a multiple personality - which is completely wrong. But it meant that there is a split between your different faculties like emotion and reason and motor and perception and all that sort of stuff. So a classic example would be in the sort of, what they call it peculiar affect, so that, you know, you say to the patient, your mother is very ill
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