El bazar de la memoria

In this powerful, enlightening and thoughtful book, the prominent psychiatrist Veronica O'Keane explains, through her therapeutic experience, the neurological networks and the processes involved in memory; she also provides rich philosophical and literary perspectives. A pang of sadness, a sigh of regret, the rush of love, the numbness that loss produces... memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a sign of the complex neural process that operates behind the scenes of our daily lives. A process, moreover, that shapes and builds us by filtering the world around us, shaping our behavior and feeding our imagination. Veronica O'Keane has spent many years observing how memory and experience intertwine. Drawing from the moving stories of her patients, and involving well-known writers, the author explains the latest neuroscientific research to reposition our understanding of the extraordinary puzzle that is the human brain. He wonders, among other things, why memories give us such a real sensation, how our sensations and perceptions are linked to them, why place is so important to memory, or whether there are "true" and "false". And, above all, what happens when the memory process is altered by mental illness? The rigor and diversity of data and references that come together in this volume make it a true bazaar that invites us to search and discover in him the most amazing revelations and also, in the best sense, disturbing.