British psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and author (born 1953) whose magnum opus The Master and His Emissary argues that the left-right brain hemisphere divide has shaped Western culture's trajectory toward abstraction and away from holistic understanding.
The Master and His Emissary thesis: the left hemisphere's dominance in modern Western culture has produced a fragmented, mechanistic, over-rationalized civilization at the expense of the right hemisphere's holistic, embodied, and metaphorical mode of being.
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