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Author:   Sean Spence (Professor of General Adult Psychiatry, at the University of Sheffield, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, at Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Trust, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.814kg
ISBN:  

9780198526667

ISBN 10:   0198526660
Pages:   462
Publication Date:   02 July 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Prologue - Against freedom 1: Moving a finger 2: Assembling a 'will' 3: The timing of intentions 4: Volitional architectures 5: Losing control 6: Failing to act 7: Hysterical agents 8: Deceivers all 9: Harming others 10: Human response space Epilogue - Raising a fist

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The Actor's Brain is a fresh, thought-provoking journey into a millennial theme... Many parts are written in an engaging, humorous and mellifluous style, and some sections are excellent. David Baldiwn, University of Southampton

Author Information

Sean A Spence is Professor of General Adult Psychiatry at the University of Sheffield and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust, where he is consultant to the Homeless Assessment and Support Team. He has previously held a De Witt-Wallace visiting research fellowship at Cornell University, New York (1999) and a MRC Clinical Training Fellowship on the MRC Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital (1995 - 1998) while contemporaneously Honorary Lecturer in Psychiatry at Imperial College School of Medicine, London. In 1997 he was awarded both the Royal College of Psychiatrists Research Prize and Medal and the Royal Society of Medicine Section of Psychiatry Essay Prize. His principal research interest is in the regulation of voluntary behaviour (volition) in healthy people and those affected by neuropsychiatric disease. His clinical interests include the psychiatric care of the homeless and the socially marginalised.

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