The Mimetic Brain (Studies in Violence, Mimesis and Culture)

Jean-Michel Oughourlian (author) and Trevor Cribben Merrill (Translated by)

ISBN 10: 1611861896 / ISBN 13: 9781611861891

Edité par Michigan State University Press, 2016

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Synopsis :

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 René 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.

À propos de l?auteur: Jean-Michel Oughourlian is the former chief of psychiatry at the American Hospital of Paris and a former professor of clinical psychopathology at the Sorbonne. He collaborated with René Girard on Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World (1978) and has authored several books on psychiatry, neuroscience, and mimetic theory, including The Genesis of Desire (2008), Psychopolitics (2012), and The Mimetic Brain (2016). He is a founding member of the Association Recherches Mimétiques, a French organization devoted to René Girard's thought.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Mimetic Brain (Studies in Violence, ...
Éditeur : Michigan State University Press
Date d'édition : 2016
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Used; Good