Module One: 8 Sessions
The Divided Brain Clinic 1
with Dr Iain McGilchrist
Life and Death
SESSION 5 OF 8
Duration 14mins 00secs
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In this session, Dr Iain McGilchrist shares reflections on life and death. Dr McGilchrist examines what life is, and how life and death are perceived by both the left and right hemispheres of the brain, highlighting each side’s varied interpretation. Dr McGilchrist discusses the inseparability of life and death, exploring the notion of opposites and outlining how and why both are essential. Dr McGilchrist highlights the importance of flow and patterns of turbulence, likening life to a dance that brings together spontaneity and order.
Dr McGilchrist conveys the concept of ‘betweenness’, and how this relates to life and death. He then discusses society’s attitudes to death and how it has changed over time.
ALL SESSIONS IN THIS MODULE: The Divided Brain Clinic 1
01
Language
In this session, Dr Iain McGilchrist investigates language, examining it’s advantages and disadvantages. Dr McGilchrist outlines how both the left and right hemispheres of the brain contribute to language.
02
Intuition
In this session, Dr Iain McGilchrist investigates intuition. He discusses how intuition has recently received a bad reputation due to the belief that we should replace our intuition with logical arguments. He further discusses how an attempt to do without intuition would be as foolish as to attempt to do without reason. Dr McGilchrist outlines...
03
Love and Relationships
Iain McGilchrist investigates relationship and love. McGilchrist discusses how all relationship is of a form of love and introduces insightful information detailing how love & relationship are influenced by both the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
04
Implicitness
In this session, Dr Iain McGilchrist investigates implicitness. He discusses the importance of the implicit in both life and therapy. Dr McGilchrist comments on how implicitness is something we tend not to think about very often, suggesting that nowadays people often believe that everything should be explicit. However, metaphors, narratives and myths, which are all...
05
Life and Death « you are here
In this session, Dr Iain McGilchrist shares reflections on life and death. Dr McGilchrist examines what life is, and how life and death are perceived by both the left and right hemispheres of the brain, highlighting each side’s varied interpretation. Dr McGilchrist discusses the inseparability of life and death, exploring the notion of opposites and...
06
Purpose
In this session, Dr Iain McGilchrist investigates purpose. For human beings, purpose is very important. Dr McGilchrist discusses two significantly different ways of thinking about purpose; one is instrumental purpose and the other is intrinsic purpose. We are often told that science has proved that the universe and that life have no purpose, Dr McGilchrist...
07
Reason
In this session, Dr Iain McGilchrist investigates reason. He outlines the different types of reason and their different uses. Dr McGilchrist discusses how reason is understood differently by both hemispheres of the brain, identifying each difference with examples. He explains useful distinctions between rationality and reason, examining how many things that we desire cannot be...
08
Trauma and Resilience
In this session, Dr Iain McGilchrist investigates trauma and resilience. He outlines the origins of the diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and discusses important findings from which PTSD was based. Dr McGilchrist examines the Trauma Model, exploring its applications and limitations. He illuminates the notion that we are not merely the victims of our...
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