The Psychology of Adjustment to Change with Dr James Brennan

Although the mind has been thought about for centuries, it is only in the last few years that the neurosciences have begun to map out how the brain processes information. Similarly, it is also fairly recently that archaeologists have established when, and probably how, ‘modern minds’ came about, allowing us to see a little more clearly where the human mind sits within nature as a whole.

As a psychologist, James Brennan will talk about this, our species’ most distinctive feature, but not from a hardware (neuroscience) perspective, so much as a software (psychological) one: how is information in human brains organised so as to produce the mental processes that we call a ‘mind’? This broader understanding of the mind can be useful in making sense of very personal catastrophes, like serious illness or bereavement. How do people’s minds respond when faced with change, and how do they adjust to it?…