Description: The Dreams of Santiago Ramon y Cajal Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Benjamin Ehrlich Format: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc ISBN-13: 9780190619619, 978-0190619619 Synopsis The Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramon y Cajal [tel] explored the microscopic world of the brain and found a landscape inhabited by distinctly individual cells, later termed neurons. "The mysterious butterflies of the soul," he called them, "whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind." Although he ranks among the greatest scientists in history, the name of the Nobel Prize-winning "father of modern neuroscience" is not as well-known as that of Darwin, Pasteur, Galileo, Einstein, Copernicus, and Isaac Newton. The second half of the nineteenth century saw a revolution in the study of the mind. Cajal was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud [tel], whose radical theories would scandalize the next century. Before he was a neuroanatomist Cajal conducted psychiatric experiments and before Freud became a psychiatrist, he worked in neuroanatomy. In public, Cajal spoke respectfully about Freud, but in private, Cajal rejected the man and his theories. In order to disprove Freud's "lies," Cajal started to record his own dreams in a diary, part of a notably personal book project, which he worked on from 1918 until his death in 1934. For reasons unknown, Cajal never published this work. Until recently, it was assumed that the manuscript had been destroyed during the Spanish Civil War. The Dreams of Santiago Ramon y Cajal is this lost dream diary, translated into English for the first time. The text is accompanied by an introduction to the life and work of Cajal, his relationship with the famed Viennese psychoanalyst, and the historical context surrounding the contributions of two great dueling intellects.
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Book Title: The Dreams of Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Subject Area: Biological Psychology
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Width: 181 mm
Author: Benjamin Ehrlich
Publication Name: The Dreams of Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 266 g
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
