Description
Book SynopsisANTONIO DAMASIO is a University Professor, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Neurology, and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. Damasio's other books include
Descartes' Error;
Self Comes to Mind; and
Looking for Spinoza. He has received the Honda Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, and, shared with his wife Hanna, the Pessoa, Signoret, and Cozzarelli prizes. Damasio is a fellow of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He lives in Los Angeles.
Trade ReviewThe life-changing read of the year... The book is crammed with tiny gems of information with which to reassess how you look at the world and think about yourself -- Katie Mitchell * Guardian *
A tour de force...a monumental book...a gem of a work -- Anthony Clare * Sunday Times *
Compelling...a story told with clarity and pace, unencumbered by unnecessary technical jargon and illustrated with insightful clinical anecdotes * The Times *
A fascinating and suggestive book * Literary Review *
Both Descartes'
Error and
The Feeling of What Happens are essential reading. They are groundbreaking classics of psychology and neuroscience. These are the books to buy, keep and ponder upon. Do so, and you will be ahead of the ruck by at least a decade * Journal Of The Royal Society of Medicine *