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Jean-Michel Oughourlian
Alternating between case studies and more theoretical statements, Dr Oughourlian gives the battle of the sexes scientific validation with the discovery of mirror neurons. He argues that by helping couples…
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This important study demonstrates the toxic and pathogenic mechanisms at work in physical ailments and mental disturbances and reveals a common cause: alterity, the other. Jean-Michel Oughourlian maintains that the…
Offering up clinical studies and a complete reevaluation of classical psychiatry, Oughourlian explores the interaction among reason, emotions, and imitation and reveals that rivalry - the blind spot in contemporary…
Oughourlian, who pioneered an interdividual psychology with Rene Girard, reveals how all people are bound together in a dynamic, contingent process of imitation, and shows that the same patterns of…