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Brain, Vol. 127, No. 7, 1678-1679, July 2004
© 2004 Guarantors of Brain
doi: 10.1093/brain/awh143

Book Review

THE SELF IN NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHIATRY

Gereon R. Fink

Department of Neurology, University Hospital Aachen, RWTH Aachen, Germany

THE SELF IN NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHIATRY
Edited by Tilo Kircher and Anthony David
2003. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Price £29.95. ISBN 0-521-53350-3.

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It is only in his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry when Harry Potter learns that only muggles (the non-magic folk, i.e. people like most of us) talk about ‘mind-reading’: ‘The mind is not a book to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by any invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing’ he learns during his ‘occlumency’ lesson by the much-hated Professor Snape (J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. London: Bloomsbury; 2003, pp. 468–9). And Professor Snape continues: ‘It is true, however, that those who have mastered legilimency (the ability to extract feeling and memories from . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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