Beschreibung:
David Cohen is a prolific writer and film-maker, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He has written for The Guardian, The Times, New Scientist, and first interviewed Hans Eysenck for Penthouse. Cohen's previous books include Being a Man, How the Child's Mind Develops and Carl Rogers: A Critical Biography.
From Skinner to Chomsky, Eysenck to Antony Damasio, this book is a unique collection of in-depth conversations with world-famous psychologists. The last century has seen radical changes in thiking and practice, and the arguments that drive this change are surprisingly deep. The interviews here given an insight into the conflicts and controversies at the heart of contemporary psychology, revealing a clash of visions of what human nature is all about.