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The Brain and The Mind – Readings for Workshops
The Brain, Free Will and the Inner Life
Tim Crane
The Mind-body Problem, Knowledge of Mind and knowledge of brain
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Patrick Haggard
Human Volition with Chambon: The Sense of Agency
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Iain McGilchrist
The Master and his Emissary, Yale University Press, 2010
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Mary Midgely
"The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist"
Bynum, W. F. (2 April 2010). "On the right: Iain McGilchrist The Master and His Emissary – The divided brain."
The Times Literary Supplement (News International)
Darwin, Biology and the Brain's Orders and Disorders
Dominic Murphy and Stephen Stich
'Darwin in the Madhouse', in Peter Carruthers and Andrew Chamberlain, eds., Evolution and the Human Mind: Modularity, Language and Meta-Cognition, Cambridge University Press 2000 62-92
Kim Sterelny The Evolved Apprentice MIT Press 2012
David Papineau and Matteo Mameli
review article on Gary Marcus's The Birth of the Mind, in Biology and Philosophy 2006
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Peter Hobson
'Emotion as Personal Relatedness', Emotion Review 2012, 4: 169 The Cradle of Thought: Exploring the Origins of Thinking (Pan 2005)
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Anthony David
'To See Ourselves as Others See US', BJP 1999, 175, 210-216
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A.S. Byatt
Angels and Insects Vintage 1993
The Workings of Empathy
Darian Leader and David Corfield
Why do People Get Ill ?, Hamish Hamilton 2005
Darian Leader
What is Madness?
Freud, S. Hamish Hamilton, 2011
Some Points for a Comparative Study of Organic and Hysterical Motor Paralyses, ‘ Standard Edition 1, : 160-172
Chris Frith
The Role of Metacognition in Human Social Interactions
Chris Frith
Consciousness, Will and Responsibility: What Studying the Brain Tells Us about the Mind
Autism and the Concept of Psychological Normality
Leo Kanner
Autistic Disturbance of Affective contact 1943
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Kathy Lette
The Boy Who Fell to Earth Bantam 2012
Michael Rutter
'Multiple meanings of a developmental perspective on psychopathology'
'Progress in Understanding in Autism,' 2007 - 2010
Genes and Behaviour, Nature- Nurture Interplay explained, Oxford: Blackwell Scientific, 2006
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Rutter Progress in Understanding Autism 2011.pdf
Rutter review paper gxE 2012.pdf
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Francesca Happé, et al
'Time to Give up on a Single Explanation of Autism,' Nature Neuroscience, 2006
'What aspects of autism predispose to talent?'
Happe & Vital What aspects of autism predispose to talent.pdf
Phil. Trans. R
Soc (2009) 364 'What did I say? What did I think?' Attributing False Beliefs to Children with or without autism.
Adam Feinstein
A History of Autism : Conversations with Pioneers Wiley 2012
The Gendered Brain
Lombardo et al
'Fetal Testosterone Influences Sexually Dimorphic Gray Matter', The Journal of Neuroscience, Jan 11 2011
Baron Cohen, et al
2005 Sex Differences in the Brain
BC(2005) Sex differences_Science.pdf
Why are Autism Spectrum Differences More Prevalent in Males?
Fetal Testosterone Influences Sexually Dimorphic Grey Matter
lombardo_2012_jneurosci_FetalTestosteroneSexuallyDimorphicGrayMatter.pdf
Melissa Hines, et al
'Prenatal hormones and childhood sex segragation, playmate and play style preferences', Horm ehav, 59 (4) 549-555
Brain Gender OUP, 2004
Cordelia Fine
Delusions of Gender (Norton, 2010)
Michèle Roberts
Mud: Stories of Sex and Love (Virago 2011)
You Must Remember This
Kopelman, M.D.
(2009) Varieties of confabulation and delusion. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
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Sigmund Freud ‘Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis', SE 22
Steven Rose
The Making of Memory Vintage, 2003
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Lisa Appignanesi
The Memory Man, Arcadia 2005