The Self Delusion

A New York Times –bestselling author reveals how the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, are critical to our lives   We all know we tell stories about ourselves. But as psychiatrist and neuroscientist Gregory Berns argues in The Self Delusion , we don’t just tell stories; we are the stories. Our self-identities are fleeting phenomena, continually reborn as our conscious minds receive, filter, or act on incoming information from the world and our memories.   Drawing on new resea