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This is, in fact, the argument of one of the most fascinating, and compelling, books I have ever read, Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature and Thought by Louis Sass, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Rutgers.
Iain McGilchrist • The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
I’ve come to call this set of circuits—from mirror neurons to subcortical regions, back up to the middle prefrontal areas—the “resonance circuits.” This is the pathway that connects
Daniel J. Siegel • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
When we put ourselves in others’ shoes, we are using the right inferior parietal lobe, and the right lateral prefrontal cortex, which is involved in inhibiting the automatic tendency to espouse one's own point of view.195
Iain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary
And if it should turn out that one hemisphere understands metaphor, where the other does not,
Iain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary
This book reveals how our brains construct narratives for our lives, and how this process constructs our self-identity
Gregory Berns • The Self Delusion

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The right hemisphere's view of the world in general is construed according to what is of concern to it, not according to objective impersonal categories, and therefore has a personal quality.