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A Hole in the Head: Phineas Gage Revisited

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"So even if the individual doesn't respond to a rehabilitation programme of the kind that I’ve described, there’s a lot of hope for structuring the environment and the things for everyday living in other ways." - Prof Malcolm Macmillan

Prof Malcolm Macmillan

Malcolm Macmillan is Professorial Fellow at the School of Behavioural Science, the University of Melbourne. He also holds fellowships at the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Psychological Society, and the Association for Psychological Science.

Much of Prof Macmillan's research has been on the history of the doctrine of localisation, and of the history of the neurosciences more generally, and in historically based critical evaluations of psychoanalysis.

His book "Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc" has had some critical success and his "An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage" has won two international awards. A number of his works on psychoanalysis have been translated into French and Polish.


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Host: Jennifer Cook
Producers: Kelvin Param, Eric van Bemmel, and Jennifer Cook
Series Creators: Eric van Bemmel and Kelvin Param
Audio Engineer: Russell Evans
Theme Music performed by Sergio Ercole. Mr Ercole is represented by the Musicians' Agency, Faculty of Music
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