Abstract
The social brain paradigm does more than help us reveal the social and world realities beyond the conspiracy of mythologies that gives us Einstein as a grammatical illusion and his brain as a sacred relic. The social brain has implications for how we understand the brain in health and illness. The objective of this chapter is to explore the implications of social brain research and theory for the mental health professions. There is already a growing literature on the social brain and psychiatry. While this literature is an important rationale for our work, our approach is distinguished by a more strongly social science foundation for understanding the social brain. In Chap. 5, we saw how by building on the current body of knowledge about the social brain, we arrive at a new concept of the self and a new unit of socialization. Here we explore the implications of this re-envisioning of the social brain paradigm developed in Chap. 5 for clinical practice in psychiatry and prevention of mental illness.
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Restivo, S., Incayawar, M., Clarke, J.M. (2020). The Social Brain: Implications for Therapeutic and Preventive Protocols in Psychiatry. In: Einstein’s Brain . Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32918-1_6
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