Bio
Carole Brooks Platt is an author, blogger and public speaker. Born in Philadelphia, PA, she has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (A.B. cum laude), la Sorbonne (diplôme annuel, mention bien), Georgetown University (M.S.) and Rice University (Ph.D).
The theme of other voices, other selves began with her mémoire on Surrealist André Breton’s Nadja; her thesis on the voices and visions in Flaubert’s La Tentation de saint Antoine; and her dissertation on conflicting mythic voices in three women writers in French: Anne Hébert, Marguerite Yourcenar and Lucette Desvignes. She worked on the French Desk and in Public Affairs at the Department of State in Washington, D.C. for nearly ten years and taught French language and literature for more than 20.
Carole has published articles in esoteric, literary, psychohistorical, and scientific journals, focusing on the characteristics of dissociative creativity in atypical minds. In addition to her early academic research, she has published articles on other voices, other selves in Keats and Hugo and the psychological origins of divine voice. She uses neuroscience, attachment theory and psychobiography to explain how genetic predisposition, early trauma and later stressors have enabled great poets, including Blake, Keats, Hugo, Graves, Rilke, Yeats, Merrill, Plath and Hughes, to access creative language using dissociative practices. "Seers and the Foreseen: Breton, Jung, and the Real Nadja," was published online in Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Volume 18 Number 3, December 2017, which can be accessed here: http://dmd27.org/platt.html.
Since 2008, Carole has regularly attended the Science of Consciousness Conference in Tucson, AZ. This conference provides cutting edge presentations on all aspects of consciousness. In 2010, she presented her research on the minds of poets. Her work was originally inspired by Julian Jaynes's 1976 theory on the hallucinatory origins of poetry and prophecy; but she continually updates this research using the latest neuroscientific evidence on the role of the right hemisphere in creative processes. She was an invited speaker at the Julian Jaynes Conference in Charleston, WV, in 2013 and to a private symposium on "Further Reaches of the Imagination II" at the Esalen Center for Research and Theory in Big Sur, CA, in 2015. She was also invited to speak at the Poetry by the Sea global conference in Madison, CT, May 2016, but was unable to attend. She has presented her work at poetry events and academic settings in Houston, TX, most recently at the Jung Center of Houston in 2017.
Her book, In Their Right Minds: The Lives and Shared Practices of Poetic Geniuses, brings together her literary and neuroscientific research and was considered an Amazon Hot New Release in Neuropsychology and Poetry / Literary Criticism in August 2015. She is currently researching a new book on the minds of female mystics and mediums, beginning with the fascinating story of Joan of Arc. "Heart and Mind, Light and Love: The Right Intuitive Mind of Joan of Arc" can be found in this issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, 26, No. 11-12, 2019, pp. 182-202. Alternatively, it can be purchased on line at https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/jcs/2019/00000026/f0020011/art00008
Carole also blogs at rightmindmatters.blogspot.com and posts links to new research on the brain at https://www.facebook.com/RightMindMatters.
The theme of other voices, other selves began with her mémoire on Surrealist André Breton’s Nadja; her thesis on the voices and visions in Flaubert’s La Tentation de saint Antoine; and her dissertation on conflicting mythic voices in three women writers in French: Anne Hébert, Marguerite Yourcenar and Lucette Desvignes. She worked on the French Desk and in Public Affairs at the Department of State in Washington, D.C. for nearly ten years and taught French language and literature for more than 20.
Carole has published articles in esoteric, literary, psychohistorical, and scientific journals, focusing on the characteristics of dissociative creativity in atypical minds. In addition to her early academic research, she has published articles on other voices, other selves in Keats and Hugo and the psychological origins of divine voice. She uses neuroscience, attachment theory and psychobiography to explain how genetic predisposition, early trauma and later stressors have enabled great poets, including Blake, Keats, Hugo, Graves, Rilke, Yeats, Merrill, Plath and Hughes, to access creative language using dissociative practices. "Seers and the Foreseen: Breton, Jung, and the Real Nadja," was published online in Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Volume 18 Number 3, December 2017, which can be accessed here: http://dmd27.org/platt.html.
Since 2008, Carole has regularly attended the Science of Consciousness Conference in Tucson, AZ. This conference provides cutting edge presentations on all aspects of consciousness. In 2010, she presented her research on the minds of poets. Her work was originally inspired by Julian Jaynes's 1976 theory on the hallucinatory origins of poetry and prophecy; but she continually updates this research using the latest neuroscientific evidence on the role of the right hemisphere in creative processes. She was an invited speaker at the Julian Jaynes Conference in Charleston, WV, in 2013 and to a private symposium on "Further Reaches of the Imagination II" at the Esalen Center for Research and Theory in Big Sur, CA, in 2015. She was also invited to speak at the Poetry by the Sea global conference in Madison, CT, May 2016, but was unable to attend. She has presented her work at poetry events and academic settings in Houston, TX, most recently at the Jung Center of Houston in 2017.
Her book, In Their Right Minds: The Lives and Shared Practices of Poetic Geniuses, brings together her literary and neuroscientific research and was considered an Amazon Hot New Release in Neuropsychology and Poetry / Literary Criticism in August 2015. She is currently researching a new book on the minds of female mystics and mediums, beginning with the fascinating story of Joan of Arc. "Heart and Mind, Light and Love: The Right Intuitive Mind of Joan of Arc" can be found in this issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, 26, No. 11-12, 2019, pp. 182-202. Alternatively, it can be purchased on line at https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/jcs/2019/00000026/f0020011/art00008
Carole also blogs at rightmindmatters.blogspot.com and posts links to new research on the brain at https://www.facebook.com/RightMindMatters.
