The Realisation of Concepts : Infinity, Cognition, and Health / W.M. Bernstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernstein, W. M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There has recently been a flurry of theoretical activity in affective neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis. This book argues that the ability to integrate biological and psychological levels of understanding is inhibited by two important issues. First is the assumption made by most theorists that physical and mental phenomena are essentially different ("the Hard Problem") Second, is the ambiguity of the widely used "Affect Concept". Ideas about the autonomic nervous system are integrated with those from the author's previous text A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis. The Realization of Concepts is based on four key assumptions: (1) There is no "Hard Problem"; (2) Motivational theory and cognitive theory can be integrated to create more valid models of body, brain and mind interactions; (3) "Affect Concepts" are superfluous and work to inhibit theory integration; and, (4) Affect theory developed as a "compromise formation" in response to radical reductionism.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PLAN OF THE BOOK; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION Conceptual fashions; PART I; CHAPTER ONE Scientific concepts and human evolution; CHAPTER TWO Theory-building organisations; CHAPTER THREE Barriers to knowledge and theoretical integration; CHAPTER FOUR Recent consensus and longstanding problems; CHAPTER FIVE Controlling sensations, concepts, feelings, and overt behaviour; CHAPTER SIX Recapitulation of axiomatic assumptions and their connections; PART II; CHAPTER SEVEN Parasympathetic systems and affect theory

CHAPTER EIGHT Autonomic nervous systems I: stress and anxietyCHAPTER NINE Autonomic nervous systems II: thinking, feeling, and overt behaviour; CHAPTER TEN Psychopathology; PART III; CHAPTER ELEVEN Information processing, mental competence and psychotherapy; CHAPTER TWELVE Authority, self-control, and metatheory; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Moving through space, time, and light; L'ESPRIT D'ESCALIER; CONCLUSION Psychosomatics in religion and science; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 11, 2014).

ISBN:

0-429-92200-0

0-429-90777-X

0-429-48300-7

1-78241-182-8

9780429483004

OCLC:

874097800