Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Since I've been in the pyschology mood lately, here's my recommendation of two books which have the psychology plus crime element in it, a fantastic combination! The first is Mind Catcher by John Darnton. The second, The Intepretaion of murder by Jed Rubenfield.
Mind Catcher is about this mad psychologist working in a mental research insituite trying to capture the human mind as it escapes from the brain when it nears death. The concept behind his idea is that since our brain shuts down in folds from the outside to the inside, the mind located at the centre of it all will struggle to escape and when given an open portal will do so. Thus if his resaerch and experiement ( for what is a mad doctor without his mad experiement) suceeds, this will prove his theory, that the human mind (or anima as he calls it) can exist outside a body, correct.
Interetsing bits of the book i really like, include the short argument on the difference between the mind and the brain. Really enlightening, and i would have posted up a short exerpt if not for the constrain of time. The book also featured different mental illnesses, such as a man who believes his flesh is rotting. Kinda scary, but then again scary is interesting.
As for The Intepretation of murder, i havn't yet read the book as i intend to save it for the holidays when i can slowly savour every single page without the constant nagging of homework. But how can a book ever go wrong with a charcter like Freud featured as the detective of the novel!?! Also, i have to but add, that this is the very first book i bought on impulse. I almost never buy books except for the one time i was force to get one for my brithday and ended up with the ridiculously boring "water babies".
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