The Two of Me

The Rational Outer Me and the Emotional Inner Me

John Birtchnell

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English

Psychology Press Ltd
20 November 2003

Psychological theory & schools of thought; Social, group or collective psychology; Cognition & cognitive psychology; The self, ego, identity, personality; Conscious & unconscious; Psychotherapy

This text attempts to answer the question: how much of what we do is the result of conscious and deliberate decisions and how much originates in unconscious, unthought out, automatic directives? The answer is that far more than what we might imagine falls into the second category. We tend to assume responsibility for our unconsciously determined thoughts and actions, and even though we do not know why we think and act the way we do, we make up reasons for it, which we truly believe. Each one of us is really two people in the same body, who in many respects, function quite independently of each other, and yet somehow manage to get along with things - while the other, the outer brain, serves as the spokesperson for both of them. The inner brain is the source of our objectives and generates the emotions that keep us on track in our attainment of them. This book explores the strange relationship between these two parts of us across a spectrum of mental processes including, memory, language, problem solving, dreams, delusions and hallucinations, and more complex pursuits such as the arts, humour and religion.

By: John Birtchnell
Imprint: Psychology Press Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 612g
ISBN: 9781841693231
ISBN 10: 1841693235
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 20 November 2003
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents. Preface. Part 1: The Outer Me/Inner Me Dichotomy. The Birth of an Idea. The Outer Me. The Inner Me. Part 2: Other Conscious/Unconscious Distinctions. Psychodynamic Distinctions. Cognitive Distinctions. Part 3: The Human Objectives. Survival. Reproduction. Relating. Part 4: The Receptive and Responsive Me. Sensory Input. Emotion. Memory. Part 5: The Active Me. Motor Action. Communication and Language. Mental Activity. Part 6: The Complex Me. Deception and Self-Deception. Delusions and Hallucinations. Dreams. Part 7: The Social Me. The Arts. Humour. Religion. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.

John Birtchnell is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and author of Relating in Psychotherapy and How Humans Relate.

Reviews for The Two of Me: The Rational Outer Me and the Emotional Inner Me

This new theory of mind covers ground touched in his two previous texts and synthesises a wide and deep range of knowledge, in which analytic theory, cognitive psychology and the latest research in neuroanatomy combine to yield a thought provoking, holistic, subjective and relational-based view of mind, written with wisdom and compassion. - Dr. Dale Mathers, Member, International Association of Analytical Psychology