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Reason

SESSION 7 OF 8

Duration 12mins 13secs

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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 achieved rationally.

Dr McGilchrist believes reasonableness is disappearing now because ‘so much of our life is controlled by processes developed by bureaucracies administered through machines’, adding how ‘machines are beginning to mould the way we think’.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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...

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05

Life and Death

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...

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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...

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07

Reason « you are here

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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ALL MODULES IN THIS SERIES

Module One: 8 Sessions

The Divided Brain Clinic 1

with Dr Iain McGilchrist

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Module Two: 7 Sessions

The Divided Brain Clinic 2

with Dr Iain McGilchrist

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module Three: 7 Sessions

The Divided Brain Clinic 3

with Dr Iain McGilchrist

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