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    Contents

    Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are

    Introduction

    PART I: Snapshots

    Chapter 1: Life, death, and the middle ground

    Picturing awareness

    A rare mistake?

    When hope is in vain

    A spectrum of awareness

    A new class of consciousness

    Silent witness

    Will to live

    Speaking without a voice

    The future of consciousness imaging

    Chapter 2: The good, the bad, and the ugly: powerful emotions and our power to work with them

    Weathering the storm

    Watching our minds watch themselves

    Retraining the traumatized mind

    Why go it alone?

    Healing brains, healing institutions

    Chapter 3: Happiness on the brain

    The asymmetrical brain

    Pleasure is nice, until it isn’t

    Anatomy of a milkshake

    The brain of a bully

    Happily ever after?


      

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