Credits

 

How are we to hope that, one day, the ‘man’ that we all carry within us might free himself from the animal that we also carry within us, if he is never informed about how this admirable mechanism called his nervous system works? How are we to hope that we shall see the disappearance of destructive aggression, hate, violence and war? Is it not essential to show him how science views as petty and ridiculous those feelings he has often been taught to regard as the most noble, without telling him that it is only because they are the ones most useful for preserving social groups and classes, whereas the creative imagination, a fundamental characteristic of his brain, is, to say the least, usually absolutely not required to make an honest man and a good citizen?

- Henri Laborit (1914-1995), L'agressivité détournée, p. 8

This site is dedicated to him

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Production team

Site developed, researched, and written by: Bruno Dubuc
Programming: Patrick Robert
Graphic design and animation: Denis Paquet, www.denispaquet.com
English translation: Al Daigen, daigen@bserv.com

 


Past funding

January 2002 to September 2002

Affiliation: Centre de recherche de l'Hôpital Douglas, through Dr. Maurice Dongier
Funding source: Programme Étalez votre Science 2001-2002, Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec
Site architecture and graphic design: Webdrifters

September 2002 to March 2013

Affiliation and funding source: , one of the 13 institutes of


Present funding

April 2013 to present

The Brain from Top to Bottom turns to its readers for funding