03023cam a2200325 4500 526952356 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781541698628 1541698622 B01IAIZAEY Amazon 196e11d2-ce81-40d2-8dd1-09d87d168ffb OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2725589 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Fernyhough, Charles. The Voices Within [OverDrive] : The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves. Basic Books, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2337kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 2337kB. History. Psychology. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>A luminous exploration of the nature of thoughts, from daydreams to the voices in our heads</b></p> <p><br /></p> <p>At the moment you caught sight of this book, what were you thinking? Was your thought a stream of sensations? Or was it a voice in your head? Did you ask yourself, "I wonder what that's about?" Did you answer? And what does it mean if you did?<br /> When someone says they hear voices in their head, they are often thought to be mentally ill. But, as Charles Fernyhough argues in <i>The Voices Within</i>, such voices are better understood as one of the chief hallmarks of human thought. Our inner voices can be self-assured, funny, profound, hesitant, or mean; they can appear in different accents and even in sign language. We all hear them-and we needn't fear them. Indeed, we cannot live without them: we need them, whether to make decisions or to bring a book's characters to life as we read. Studying them can enrich our understanding of ourselves, and our understanding of the world around us; it can help us understand the experiences of visionary saints, who might otherwise be dismissed as schizophrenics; to alleviate the suffering of those who do have mental health problems; and to understand why the person next to us on the subway just burst out laughing for no apparent reason.<br /> Whether the voices in our heads are meandering lazily or clashing chaotically, they deserve to be heard. Bustling with insights from literature, film, art, and psychology, <i>The Voices Within</i> offers more than science; it powerfully entreats us all to take some time to hear ourselves think.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=196e11d2-ce81-40d2-8dd1-09d87d168ffb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=196e11d2-ce81-40d2-8dd1-09d87d168ffb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=196e11d2-ce81-40d2-8dd1-09d87d168ffb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)