The Hidden Spring

‘Nobody bewitched by these mysteries can afford to ignore the solution proposed by Mark Solms in The Hidden Spring … fascinating, wide-ranging and heartfelt’ - Oliver Burkeman‘Rather extraordinary … The thing about these rebel types is that, so much of the time, they’re the ones most capable of making the wildest leaps. Not the patient, incremental advances of everyday science, but the world-historical, paradigm-shifting transformations in global consciousness. Or, in Solms’ case, a new theory of consciousness itself … One of the worthiest efforts to come out of neuroscience in recent memory’ - Jason Kehe‘Truly pioneering. This unification is clearly the direction for the future’ - Eric Kandel, Nobel laureate and author‘A remarkable book. It changes everything’ - Brian Eno‘To say this work is encyclopaedic is to diminish its poetic, psychological and theoretical achievement. This is required reading’ - Susie Orbach, author

Mark Solms has spent his entire career investigating the mysteries of consciousness. Best known for identifying the brain mechanisms of dreaming and for bringing psychoanalytic insights into modern neuroscience, he is director of neuropsychology in the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town, honorary lecturer in neurosurgery at the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine, and an honorary fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists.