false 15658 2 <p> "Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgments, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show us. </p><p> This is not your psychoanalyst's unconscious. The adaptive unconscious that empirical psychology has revealed, and that Wilson describes, is much more than a repository of primitive drives and conflict-ridden memories. It is a set of pervasive, sophisticated mental processes that size up our worlds, set goals, and initiate action, all while we are consciously thinking about something else. </p><p> If we don't know ourselves--our potentials, feelings, or motives--it is most often, Wilson tells us, because we have developed a plausible story about ourselves that is out of touch with our adaptive unconscious. Citing evidence that too much introspection can actually do damage, Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our unconscious selves. If you want to know who you are or what you feel or what you're like, Wilson advises, pay attention to what you actually do and what other people think about you. Showing us an unconscious more powerful than Freud's, and even more pervasive in our daily life, <i>Strangers to Ourselves</i> marks a revolution in how we know ourselves. </p> 17493 2002 Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious total:70|5:19|4:26|3:19|2:5|1:1| 70 267 158 9 5 1 false false Mon Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 00:43:05 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 16:14:56 -0700 2008 His discussion is wonderfully illustrated with fascinati...more...]]> 5 0 true false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Feb 21 17:30:24 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 17:32:38 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Mon Aug 25 20:56:30 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 20:58:54 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Mon Apr 28 16:01:55 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 15:10:40 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 16:01:17 -0700 2008
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