Know Thyself

Name: Know Thyself
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ISBN: 9781922768506

Our Hidden Selves in a Precarious World

Paul Valent

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English

Hybrid Publishers
08 June 2026

Memoirs; Abnormal psychology; Psychiatry

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.

By: Paul Valent
Imprint: Hybrid Publishers
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 383g
ISBN: 9781922768506
ISBN 10: 1922768502
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 08 June 2026
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Valent - psychiatrist, author, traumatologist and violentologist - was born in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 1938. He survived the Holocaust in Hungary and in 1949 he and his parents migrated to Australia. Valent studied medicine in Melbourne, graduated as a psychiatrist in London, then he worked in Israel where he researched the psychological effects of the Six-Day War. Back in Australia, Valent worked as a consultant psychiatrist, mostly in emergency departments at Prince Henry's Hospital and Monash Medical Centre. He has also worked in private practice.