ABSTRACT

Reading Minds is a practical guide to the cognitive science revolution. With fascinating descriptions of studies of the mind, from the brain scans of lovers and liars in London to the eye movements of babies in Budapest, this book takes the reader into the laboratories of the most innovative psychological researchers around the world. Using anecdotes from everyday life and his clinical practice, renowned psychotherapist and academic the author shows how to use the insights of science to better understand and relate to others.

chapter ONE|20 pages

Reading minds

chapter THREE|31 pages

What the brain tells us about the mind

chapter FOUR|32 pages

Trauma: how events shape the brain and the mind

chapter FIVE|20 pages

Ways of understanding

chapter SIX|20 pages

Bad feelings

chapter SEVEN|18 pages

Look me in the eye

chapter NINE|21 pages

Why we don't know what we know