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'Solms and his colleagues are making a brilliant, determined, scrupulous and (one wants to say) tactful endeavour to approach, in a new way, the oldest question of them all'
OLIVER SACKS

Once dismissed as unscientific, psychoanalytic therapy is proving to be among our most effective medical treatments of any kind…


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I've often been frustrated by people who dismiss Freud as pseudoscientific. Although it may be the case that he strayed outside of the boundaries of good science, Solms clarifies that Freud was well aware that he had reached the limits of what was possible. You'll read evidence from Freud's correspondence where he hopes for a future where brain imagine will help confirm or deny what he could only hypothesize.

That's a small part of the book, but an important one as Solms shares his search for a deeper understand of how and why the brain creates our experience of consciousness.…

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The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.

Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…

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