The Dark Side of Left-Brain Operations: Schizophrenia, Modern Art and Western History Part I

Until now scientific comparisons between brain hemispheres appear as functionally interdependent. But Iain McGilchrist's great book, The Master and His Emissary, argues that there is also a power struggle between the hemispheres. When the left brain gets control results include schizophrenia and modern art. In Western history the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution had left-brain tendencies gone amuck.