Understanding four reading paths
From the book – Chapter 35: Maps, Thinkers and How to Use This Book
Four reading paths
Your living edition was planned as a site with articles, a brain atlas, glossary, quizzes, a Big Five sketch, thinkers, and studies with ethics attached. The four paths:
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First principles — what the field is, how it began, how it knows (Chapters 1–2).
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The living brain — nerves, cells, lobes, senses, sleep (Chapters 3–4, 6, 13, 19, 21).
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A person among people — learning, memory, development, personality, social mind (Chapters 5, 12, 17).
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When the mind hurts — emotion, disorders, therapy (Chapters 7–11, 14–15, 18, 22).
Dharma and healing techniques sit in Chapters 20, 23 and 24.
Volume 7 (Chapters 25–34) is the wider circle of care: addiction, eating, neurodiversity, digital life, work and study, pregnancy and birth, later life, rights, assessment and relationships.
Volume 8 is Test Your Knowledge.
Volume 9 is Stories from Real Life: several stories for every chapter, each with signs to notice, causes, what to do, whom to consult and how to talk.
Volume 10 is this companion guide. Use this chapter for quick reference.
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