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Book Review
Romantic Science and the Experience of Self: Transatlantic Crosscurrents from William James to Oliver Sacks. By Martin Halliwell. (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 1999. viii, 283 pp. $78.95, ISBN 1-84014-626-5.)
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This book is a study of five "influential figures in twentieth century transatlantic" psychology: the American William James, the Viennese Otto Rank, the Swiss Ludwig Binswanger, the Danish-German and later American Erik Erikson, and the British neurologist Oliver Sacks. What could they possibly have in common? They are all interested, Martin Halliwell reports, on how "narrative techniques expand the often impoverished repertoire of scientific language," and they all practice "romantic science." |
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