Know Thyself
Author: Paul Valent
ISBN: 9781922768506
Publisher: Hybrid Publishing
Year first published: 06 Feb 2026
Pages: 306
Format: Paperback / softback
As a child survivor of the Holocaust, Paul Valent’s life’s work has been aninvestigation into the reasons why humans – who have the capacity to love and carefor each other – too often hate and hurt each other instead. Over eight decades, utilising major investigations into how the brain works, he comes tounderstand the workings of his own mind, the minds of patients, victims, and–eventually, with courage and sensitivity – the minds of perpetrators.Valent reveals how the bulk of our brains conceals a mindset evolved in our jungleheritage, its challenges and traumas. He then describes how this mindset manifests itself in today’s world, in violence thatranges from bullying to war, and includes the Holocaust and other genocides.
ISBN: 9781922768506
Publisher: Hybrid Publishing
Year first published: 06 Feb 2026
Pages: 306
Format: Paperback / softback
As a child survivor of the Holocaust, Paul Valent’s life’s work has been aninvestigation into the reasons why humans – who have the capacity to love and carefor each other – too often hate and hurt each other instead. Over eight decades, utilising major investigations into how the brain works, he comes tounderstand the workings of his own mind, the minds of patients, victims, and–eventually, with courage and sensitivity – the minds of perpetrators.Valent reveals how the bulk of our brains conceals a mindset evolved in our jungleheritage, its challenges and traumas. He then describes how this mindset manifests itself in today’s world, in violence thatranges from bullying to war, and includes the Holocaust and other genocides.
