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The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to Understanding the Brain includes coverage of: the first brain, from Homo Erectus to Leonardo; paging Dr. Frankenstein to the decade of the brain; anatomy 101: left brain/right brain, and bridging the hemispheres; the human computer--speaking, hearing, and making sense of it all.; the brain and everyday life--sex, sleep, and knee-jerk reactions; you've got brain--intelligence, creativity--and here size matters!; what happens when the computer crashes--conditions, disorders, and crossed wiring; and, brain treatment, couches, shocks, pills, and the dreaded knife.

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Author:   Arthur S. Bard, M.D. ,  Mitchell G. Bard
Publisher:   Pearson Professional Education
Imprint:   Alpha Books
Dimensions:   Width: 23.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.603kg
ISBN:  

9780028643106

ISBN 10:   0028643100
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   15 August 2002
Audience:   Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

*FrontMatter, pg. i*EDITORIAL NOTE TO THE FIRST EDITION, pg. v*EDITORIAL NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION, pg. vii*TABLE OF CONTENTS, pg. ix*PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION (1917), pg. 1*PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION (1918), pg. 4*PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION (1926), pg. 6*PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION (1943), pg. 7*I. Psychoanalysis, pg. 9*II. The Eros Theory, pg. 19*III. The Other Point of View: The Will to Power, pg. 30*IV. The Problem of the Attitude-Type, pg. 41*V. The Personal and the Collective (Or Transpersonal) Unconscious, pg. 64*VI. The Synthetic or Constructive Method, pg. 80*VII. The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, pg. 90*VIII. General Remarks on the Therapeutic Approach to the Unconscious, pg. 114*Conclusion, pg. 119*PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION (1935), pg. 121*PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION (1938), pg. 125*I. Part One: THE EFFECTS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS UPON CONSCIOUSNESS, pg. 127*II. Part Two: INDIVIDUATION, pg. 173*I. New Paths in Psychology, pg. 243*II. The Structure of the Unconscious, pg. 269*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 305*INDEX, pg. 313

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Arthur S. Bard, M.D., is the former chief of the neurosurgery section of Mercy and Sutter Hospitals (and a staff neurosurgeon for 30 years) and a past president of the Sacramento (CA) Neurological Society. He was an assistant clinical professor at UC Davis Medical Center for 25 years. Mitchell G. Bard, Ph.D., is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to World War II and The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to the Middle East Conflict.

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