Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Review of The Yipping Tiger by Perminder Sachdev

There are many popular books on neurology, neuroscience and psychiatry, including those by the well known neurologist Oliver Sacks, and the wildly successful title The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge. When he visited Australia recently, Doidge's sessions at writers' festivals were filled to capacity, and it was not difficult to see why: his own speaking style was professional but warm, he could answer any question, and he was offering the hope of our brains being more 'plastic' than we thought, and able to heal from stroke and injury.

Continued at Metapsychology Online Reviews.

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