Dr. Iain McGilchrist

How to escape Left-brain thinking


April 12, 2026
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UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers talks with neuroscientist and philosopher Dr. Iain McGilchrist about the psychological and cultural crisis resulting from our modern reliance on the brain’s analytical left hemisphere, a perspective that views the world as a collection of inanimate parts rather than a living whole, while making a compelling case for the rehabilitation of myth and religious tradition as essential pathways to a deeper, relational truth that can protect Western civilization from the dehumanizing effects of purely mechanistic thinking.


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