Prologue - Against freedom
1: Moving a finger
2: Assembling a 'will'
3: The timing of intentions
4: Volitional architectures
5: Losing control
6: Failing to act
7: Hysterical agents
8: Deceivers all
9: Harming others
10: Human response space
Epilogue - Raising a fist
Sean A Spence is Professor of General Adult Psychiatry at the
University of Sheffield and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in
Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust, where he is consultant to
the Homeless Assessment and Support Team. He has previously held a
De Witt-Wallace visiting research fellowship at Cornell University,
New York (1999) and a MRC Clinical Training Fellowship on the MRC
Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital (1995 - 1998) while
contemporaneously
Honorary Lecturer in Psychiatry at Imperial College School of
Medicine, London. In 1997 he was awarded both the Royal College of
Psychiatrists Research Prize and Medal and the Royal Society of
Medicine
Section of Psychiatry Essay Prize. His principal research interest
is in the regulation of voluntary behaviour (volition) in healthy
people and those affected by neuropsychiatric disease. His clinical
interests include the psychiatric care of the homeless and the
socially marginalised.
The Actor's Brain is a fresh, thought-provoking journey into a
millennial theme... Many parts are written in an engaging, humorous
and mellifluous style, and some sections are excellent.
*David Baldiwn, University of Southampton*
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