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What If Good and Evil Impulses Are Brain-Side Switches You Can Actually Influence?
The urge that pulls you toward harm. The part of you that seeks healing. Most people experience these as a moral battle — willpower versus weakness, good versus bad. Dr. Fredric Schiffer has spent his career at Harvard and McLean Hospital studying a completely different explanation — that what feels like a moral conflict is often two hemispheres with different trauma histories pulling in different directions, and that activating the healthier hemisphere can shift cravings, fear responses, and moral decision-making in ways that neither willpower nor traditional therapy reliably produces. What…
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