Continuing Education for Psychologists

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS, 4th Edition

The new revised edition of Robert Ornstein's classic study offers a fresh look at human consciousness and the untapped potential of the human mind. Readers will reexamine what is known about consciousness and why this understanding is so important at this time of enormous challenge, change and potential. They will understand how assumptions, categorizations, expectations and habituations allow us to operate in the world, but that these limit our perception of what is, and what is possible. Readers will be able to go beyond left-right bilaterality, and delve into how the brain works by the synthesis of these two modes.

Robert Ornstein was a noted psychologist and a leading expert on the brain. Founder and president of the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge, Ornstein wrote more than 20 books on the brain, mind, and consciousness emphasizing our urgent need and ability to develop perceptions beyond our biological inheritance.

"An original and explosive book. It starts out by making psychology, the science of the mind, what's it actually is–as exciting and suspenseful as a good mystery story."
-- George B. Leonard

"The Psychology of Consciousness . . . should be read by all students of the mind, including psychiatrists and clinical psychologists . . .a fine text to introduce students to the new ideas that are transforming the study of the mind.."
-- Andrew Weil, Psychology Today

"[Ornstein's] insights are startling, original and certain to change how we think about ourselves and others."
-- Paul Ekman, author of Emotions Revealed, Emotional Awareness, and more

"...one of the most witty and original psychologists writing today."
-- Booklist

"A fine, fine book, lucid, unsmug, amazingly comprehensive. Reading it I felt over and over again that this was the book I had been waiting for."
-- The New Yorker