TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oughourlian,Jean-Michel
TI  - The mimetic brain /Jean-Michel Oughourlian ; translated by Trevor Cribben Merrill
T2  - Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
SN  - 9781609174767
AV  - QP360 .M564 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - East Lansing
PB  - Michigan State University Press
KW  - Neuropsychology
KW  - Cognitive neuroscience
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Psychophysiology
KW  - Physiology
KW  - Life sciences
KW  - Physical sciences
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; For a mimetic anthropology --; For a psychiatry of the three brains --; An essay in mimetic nosology --; The dialectic of the rational, emotional, and mimetic brains; 2; b
N2  - 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 Ren ̌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
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