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The Right Brain And The Unconscious

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After reading Gladwell's Blink on trained intuition, I wanted to know more about our split brain and stumbled across this book. It clarifies how unconscious the left brain, which is supposed to be conscious, is, and vice versa for the right brain. It identifies the true unconscious as the limbic system, using an approach that combines psychoanalysis and neuroscience. The book then relates all the dimensions of my mind to our life journey from birth to adult with lots of examples. This book is totally key to understanding our behavior. Highly recommended!

I have the 1992 version.

Another reviewer mentioned that this is common material for the field and therefore a rehash of commonly known material. That may be true if you live on planet where floating brains the size of beachballs telepathically massage & control you.

I've found this book to be an awakening of amazing understanding in me. This single book has shown me the power of books like no other has. It's like this guy has to spend 30 years of his life learning all this stuff and I can spend the time it takes to thoroughly read it in order to get about 25-50% of what he learned in that 30 years!!! Amazing.

The insights I've gained about myself and more importantly my family have been priceless. I always said that my mother did not have the capacity to understand what I was saying and this book validates that. It's helped me move past a lot of the blame and accept her and the rest of my family for what they are. That doesn't mean I want to be around them but living in a left brained family can be a nightmare for a right brained child. Those wounds run very deep and this has not only helped me with understanding why they act the way they act it helps me understand the way I act and what I need to do to take care of myself; namely stay away from them.

It's also well written and relatively easy to follow for a layperson

I give this book the highest rating possible.

This book rehashes well-know info about left and right brain; throws in a bunch of psychobabble; and never comes to grips with explaining the unconscious.