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May 2024
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#69 Iain McGilchrist - The Mind is More ...

Alex J O'Connor
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Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, writer, and former Oxford literary scholar. McGilchrist came to prominence after the publication of his book The Master and His Emissary, subtitled The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.

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