A review by coraline_wilde
The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist

4.0

I like how he combines neuroscience and split-brain research (first half) with history, philosophy, art and literature (second half) to make a more comprehensive analysis about the hemisphere differences and their effects on thinking. His main thesis is a call that the right hemisphere is more useful than we historically have given credit for and that we live in a culture that currently favors and leans into our more 'analytical' left hemisphere to the detriment of the holistic right hemisphere. I found it more compelling and better researched than the Bicameral Mind (which he references) but again was annoyed with the preoccupation with the Schizophrenics vs Depressives argument. Overall I thought it was a great read and one of the better psychology books I've read