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Charles Fernyhough

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Chelmsford, The United Kingdom

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Charles Fernyhough is a writer and psychologist. His non-fiction book about his daughter’s psychological development, The Baby in the Mirror, was published by Granta in 2008. His book on autobiographical memory, Pieces of Light (Profile, 2012) was shortlisted for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. His latest non-fiction book, on the voices in our heads, is published by Profile/Wellcome Collection in the UK and by Basic Books (2016) in the US. He is the editor of Others (Unbound, 2019), an anthology exploring how books and literature can show us other points of view, with net profits supporting refugee and anti-hate charities.

Charles is the author of two novels, The Auctioneer (Fourth Estate, 1999) and A Box Of Birds (Unb ...more

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Average rating: 3.52 · 1,358 ratings · 206 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory 3.54 avg rating — 464 ratings — published 2012 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voices Within 3.50 avg rating — 419 ratings — published 2016 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Thousand Days of Wonder: A Scientist's Chronicle of His Daughter's Developing Mind 3.40 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moss Witch: and Other Stories by Sara Maitland, Jim Al-Khalili (Preface), Ian Stewart (Preface) 3.65 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Baby in the Mirror: A Child's World from Birth to Three 3.72 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Others: Writers on the power of words to help us see beyond ourselves by Charles Fernyhough (Goodreads Author), Kamila Shamsie (Contributor), Noam Chomsky (Contributor) 4.19 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Box of Birds 3.07 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Auctioneer 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Private Speech, Executive Functioning, and the Development of Verbal Self-Regulation by Adam Winsler (Editor), Charles Fernyhough (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ignacio Montero (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Angela Woods (Editor), Ben Alderson-Day (Editor), Charles Fernyhough (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“This is part of what makes us distinctively human: the fact that, without any external stimulation, a man in an empty room can make himself laugh or cry.”
― Charles Fernyhough, The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves

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“You can’t tickle yourself, because you know (probably through the same kind of efference-copy transmission that usually ensures that you know that your inner speech is your own) that it is you who is performing the action. If you already know the joke, you shouldn’t laugh at it – unless perhaps it’s a reliable classic that has made you chuckle before. If I’m making myself laugh, there must be some element of surprise – but how, if I myself have generated the idea? Surely I know what I’m going to think. I’m choosing these words, aren’t I?”
― Charles Fernyhough, The Voices Within

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“Memory means different things to psychologists. Autobiographical memory is an interesting case because it straddles the most basic of the distinctions that scientists make between types of memory: that between semantic memory (memory for facts) and episodic memory (memory for events). Our memory for the events of our own lives involves the integration of details of what happened (episodic memory) with long-term knowledge about the facts of our lives (a kind of autobiographical semantic memory). Another important distinction is that between explicit or declarative memory (in which the contents of memory are accessible to consciousness) and implicit or non-declarative memory (which is unconscious). As we will see, this distinction is particularly important when it comes to the question of how memory is affected by trauma and extreme emotion.”
― Charles Fernyhough, Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts

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