The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed -Urizen- and the powerful complex of rationalizing and ordering processes which modern neuroscience identifies as -left hemisphere- brain activity. The book argues that Blake's profound understanding of the human brain is finding surprising corroboration in recent neuroscientific discoveries, such as those of the influential Harvard neuro-anatomist Jill Bolte Taylor, and it explores Blake's provocative supposition that the emergence...

This book explores how the social and economic contexts in which we live profoundly affect our mental health and wellbeing, and how modern neuroscientific and psychodynamic research can in turn contribute to and enrich our understanding of these wider social and political contexts. It therefore looks both inside and outside--indeed one of the main themes of The Political Self is that the conceptually discrete categories of -inner- and -outer- in reality constantly interact, shape, and inform each other. Severing these two worlds, it suggests, has led both to a devitalized and...