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Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
by Antonio Damasio (2003)

A very basic neuropsychology account with (Wiggish) references to and semi-biographical account of Spinoza.

How Our Brains Become Who We Are
by Joseph LeDoux (2002)

Analyses the way the psychological, social, moral, aesthetic or spiritual self is realised through the interconnectivity between neurons.

How the secrests of the brain were uncovered in seventeenth-century England
by Carl Zimmer (2004)

An account of how people “first” became aware of the secrets of human brain in the seventeenth century, with particular focus on major players, i.e. Thomas Willis and his contemporaries such as Wren, Descartes, Harvey, Boyle, and Hooke.

by Richard P. Bentall

Central to this book argument is Bentall’s proposal to “abandon psychiatric diagnoses altogether and instead try to explain and understand the actual experiences and behaviours of psychotic people”, that this approach will provide a richer account of aetiology than using Kraepelinian paradigm. Madness is a matter of opinion, and psychiatric problems must be approached from multiple perspectives.