Doppelgänger : analysing 'doubles' across antiquity, fiction, psychopathology and neuroscience /

"Aimed at psychiatrists, psychologists, neuroscientists and literary scholars, this book is an in-depth study of the doppelganger phenomenon, taking an interdisciplinary approach through antiquity, fiction, psychopathology, and neuroscience. It aims to establish the experience of the self, as w...

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Main Author: Oyebode, Femi (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
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Summary:"Aimed at psychiatrists, psychologists, neuroscientists and literary scholars, this book is an in-depth study of the doppelganger phenomenon, taking an interdisciplinary approach through antiquity, fiction, psychopathology, and neuroscience. It aims to establish the experience of the self, as well as how psychopathology reveals the mechanisms that shape our reality"--
Physical Description:pages cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781009305730 (electronic bk.)
1009305735 (electronic bk.)