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Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
Timothy D. Wilson
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Paperback. Is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover? In a tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces a hidden mental world of judgements, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JMT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 254.
Know thyself, a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgments, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show us. This is not your psychoanalyst's unconscious. The adaptive unconscious that empirical psychology has revealed, and that Wilson describes, is much more than a repository of primitive drives and conflict-ridden memories. It is a ... Read more
Know thyself, a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgments, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show us. This is not your psychoanalyst's unconscious. The adaptive unconscious that empirical psychology has revealed, and that Wilson describes, is much more than a repository of primitive drives and conflict-ridden memories. It is a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674013827
SKU
V9780674013827
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About Timothy D. Wilson
Timothy D. Wilson is Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia.
Reviews for Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
Wilson convincingly argues that our conscious minds are but the tip of the iceberg in deciding how we behave, what is important to us, and how we feel. Surveying a variety of contemporary psychological research, this book describes an unconscious that is capable of a much higher degree of thinking than previously supposed by adherents of either Freudian ... Read more