The Feeling of What Happens

Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

Antonio Damasio

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English

Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
10 October 2000

Psychology; Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology; Human biology

In The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, director of UCLA's Brain and Creativity Institute, presents ""the first truly compelling neurobiological account of the self...a remarkable work of intellectual daring"" (Nature).

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Widley praised for his innovative scientific thinking and elegant writing, Antonio Damasio, the international bestselling author of Descartes' Error achieves an understanding of consciousness by asking and answering profound questions: How is it we know what we know? How is it that our conscious and private minds have a sense of self?

In this groundbreaking book, Damasio -- a renowned and revered scientist and clinician who spent decades following amnesiacs down hospital corridors, waiting for comatose patients to awaken, and devising ingenious research using PET scans to piece together the great puzzle of consciousness -- explores the biological roots of sentient awareness and its role in survival.

Consciousness is the feeling of what happens-our mind noticing the body's reaction to the world and responding to that experience. Without our bodies there can be no consciousness, which is at heart a mechanism for survival that engages body, emotion, and mind in the glorious spiral of human life. Linking body and emotion in an arresting and original study of what it is to be human, The Feeling of What Happens ""will change your experience of yourself"" (The New York Times).

""Both Descartes Error and The Feeling of What Happens are essential reading. They are ground-breaking classics of psychology and neuroscience.""--Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

By: Antonio Damasio
Imprint: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780156010757
ISBN 10: 0156010755
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 10 October 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

ANTONIO DAMASIO is the David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. He is also an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla. He is a member of both the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Descartes' Error was an international bestseller. The Feeling of What Happens has been translated into seventeen languages.

Reviews for The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

One of the best brain stories of the decade...A must read book for anyone wanting a neurologist's perspective on one of the great unsolved mysteries. --The New York Times Stunning...Unashamedly grapples with these issues, and in the process provides the first truly compelling neurobiological account of the self. --Nature Both Descartes' Error and The Feeling of What Happens are essential reading. They are ground-breaking classics of psychology and neuroscience. These are books to buy, keep and ponder upon. --Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine A tour de force of intuition, investigation and integration. --Sunday Times (London) What makes his views so noteworthy is that they're grounded not in theoretical musings but in years of clinical research. --Time This is not casual reading, but eventually anyone can master it; it will change your experience of yourself. --The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice A landmark in the interdisciplinary project of consciousness research. --Scientific American Damasio is just the one to show you how fascinating you really are. --The Bloomsbury Review