The junk shop, or how we create memories, and the memories form us. O’Kin V.

In the best traditions of Oliver Sax. Amazing examples of the work of our psyche, described with scientific accuracy and literary skill.

immediately after the birth, Edith stopped taking care of his baby. Mother was convinced that the child in her hands was not the one whom she gave birth. Edith believed that the baby, and then her husband, replaced evil forces, and a conspiracy around her. It was this story that laid the foundation for the long scientific research of the psychiatrist Veronika O'Kin about the nature of memory.

an attack of sadness, a impulse of love, a sense of regret - memories have the ability to excite us, often when we least expect this. Why does the memory make events survive again and we remember in detail what has never happened? The author gives the piercing stories of his patients, which are difficult to believe in. For 36 years, she explores the brain and reveals: how memories form us and determine the future of each person.

Veronika O'Kin uses the latest neurobiological studies to answer the questions:

- as Memories can cause a trembling or, conversely, a surge of forces;

- why do we feel smells and touch, which are not really;

- are there “true” and “false "Memories;

- how to make sure that what is happening around us is real;

- how folklore and literature help scientists in the study of memory.

Veronika O'Kin is a psychiatrist and a neurobiologist, conducts scientific activity at the Trinity College in Dublin. Works in a female psychiatric clinic and helps hundreds of patients with difficult cases.