A review of Iain McGilchrist’s The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.

Published by Yale University Press, 597 pp. H/B (2009): £28: ISBN 978 0 300 14878: P/B (2010): ISBN 978 0 300 168921

The world that each of us occupies is, at least in part, a creature of our brain. If …