Our brains, our selves

Daedalus

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 72-80

  Feinberg, Todd E ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Israel Medical Center   (United States)

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EID: 33750699938     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/daed.2006.135.4.72     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, ist American ed. (London: Hogarth Press, 1930; repr. New York: W. W. Norton, 1961), 66.
2. For reviews of this work, see Todd E. Feinberg, Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001);
3. and T. E. Feinberg et al., "Right Hemisphere Pathology and the Self: Delusional Misidentifkation and Reduplication," in The Lost Self: Pathologies of the Brain and Identity, ed. Todd E. Feinberg and Julian P. Keenan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 100-130.
4. Macdonald Critchley, "Personification of Paralyzed Limbs in Hemiplegics," British Medical Journal 30 (1955): 284.
5. M. Ullman et al., "Motivational and Structural Factors in Denial of Hemiplegia," Archives of Neurology 3 (1960): 306-318.
6. E. A. Weinstein et al., "Delusions about Children Following Brain Injury," Journal of Hillside Hospital 5 (1956): 290-298.
7. Alan Baddeley and Barbara Wilson, "Amnesia, Autobiographical Memory and Confabulation," in Autobiographical Memory, ed. David C. Rubin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 225-252.
8. E. A. Weinstein, R. L. Kahn, and S. Malitz, "Confabulation as a Social Process," Psychiatry 19 (1956): 383-396.
9. James Taylor, Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson (New York: Basic Books, 1958).
10. Edwin A Weinstein and Olga G. Lyerly, "Confabulation Following Brain Injury," Archives of General Psychiatry 18 (1968): 348-354.
11. Feinberg, Altered Egos; Feinberg et al., "Right Hemisphere Pathology and the Self," 100-130.
12. I wish to thank Dr. Joseph Giacino and Dr. Patrick Smith for allowing me to examine their patients, some of whom are discussed in this essay.