Multimind/a New Way of Looking at Human Behavior

By Robert Ornstein

Book Overview

Robert Ornstein's classic, Multimind, presents a startling new concept of how the human mind works. In a readable and accessible way, he introduces a new science of the mind, explaining why our... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395411076
• ISBN13: 9780395411070
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Did you think your mind is single ?

Ornstein here provides in this concise book arguments in favour of the multi-faceted working of the mind. If something can be called "mind", then it must be realized that several minds (functions) work throughout the brain. There is no single entity that can be called the "mind" as several processes work in parallel and contend for a higher-layer, call it consciousness, soul or whatever. Using recent works in psychology, Ornstein demonstrates that no single entity can cover the different, and even inconsistent aspects that underlie our human behavior.