Trauma in Sentient Beings: Nature, Nurture and Nim [Hardcover]

Nims Family Tree? Introduction? 1. Who Do You Think You Are? 2. Personality 3. Were In Here Because Youre Not All There: Captivity 4. Overfamiliar 5. Relationship Formation and Maintenance 6. Inheritance: Reconnection with a Dying Planet?

This is a book about the bond between sentient beings. It explores the non-verbal space between two entities, and asks questions like; What is a healthy human being? Is it nature? Nurture? Nature via nurture? How are we born with personality traits, emotion, mood, language abilities, and intelligence?

This is a book about the bond between sentient beings. It explores the non-verbal space between two entities, and asks questions like: What is a healthy human being? Is it nature? Nurture? Nature via nurture? How are we born with personality traits, emotion, mood, language abilities, and intelligence? What do we know about attachment, family structure, and genetic inheritance?

Dr Anna Scarn? and Robert Ingersoll use the life history of the chimpanzee, Nim Chimpsky and his family: parents Carolyn and Pan, companion Lilly, their daughter, Sheba, and an assortment of human carers, to explain the hallmarks of healthy human psychological development. What makes humans human , and chimpanzees, chimpanzees ? Do chimpanzees have a personality, or should we consider them to have a chimpanality?

Robert, close friend and carer of Nim, gives the facts about Nims upbringing and first-degree relatives, and Anna reports with reference to theories of brain, personality, self, and language. Together they explain what can be drawn from psychological research and reanalyse the chimpanzee work from the 1960s and 1970s in order to honour and respect the memory of those animals.

Antonina Anna Scarn?, BSc. Hons, DPhil, PGCTHE, PGCert, CPsychol, is a psychologist and neuroscientist with expertise in language, personality andl#Œ