Between Mind and Brain : Models of the Mind and Models in the Mind / by Ronald Britton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Britton, Ronald, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book begins with an exploration of the relationship between mind and brain. It then examines various psychoanalytic models of the mind and moves to the task of the analyst to discover the unconscious models that shape his or her patients' picture of him/herself and others. The familiar models are mainly drawn from psychoanalytic practice but are supplemented from myths, religion, and literature. Developments in adjacent scientific fields such as quantum biology and new ideas about evolution are discussed that suggest cellular genetic modification can take place as a consequence of interaction with the outside world. This gives hope perhaps to the idea that not only the mind can learn from experience but also the brain.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Between mind and brain; CHAPTER TWO Does the mind matter?; CHAPTER THREE Is there a system in the system Ucs.?; CHAPTER FOUR Natural history of the mind; CHAPTER FIVE Natural, unnatural, and supernatural beliefs; CHAPTER SIX Models of the mind and modelsin the mind; CHAPTER SEVEN Myths as models; CHAPTER EIGHT The triangular model; CHAPTER NINE Religious fanaticism and ideological genocide; CHAPTER TEN The severance of links; CHAPTER ELEVEN What made Frankenstein's creature into a monster?

CHAPTER TWELVE The preacher, the poet, and the psychoanalystCONCLUSION; 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 July 18, 2015).

ISBN:

0-429-91137-8

0-429-89714-6

0-429-47237-4

1-78241-425-8

9780429472374

OCLC:

913561786