A model of the mind explored by hypnotically controlled experiments and examined for its psychodynamic implications / Gerald Saul Blum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blum, Gerald Saul, 1922- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human information processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 229 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Wiley, 1961.

Summary:

"This book is calculated to be controversial on a number of counts. It advocates a general yet detailed theory of human thought, feeling, and action-probing phenomena from perception to psychodynamics, from sensation to symptoms. It stresses those mental functions occurring between stimulus and response, and pursues them in the laboratory with the aid of techniques like hypnosis, galvanic skin recordings, and introspection. Its approach is cast in the form of a model which is neither neurophysiological nor mathematical but purely conceptual. It appraises some significant problems posed by psychoanalysis, at the same time shaping a different theoretical base. The guiding framework is acknowledged to be unfinished, requiring much additional structure from empirical research. And finally, the experiments suggested by the model often tend to be rather unorthodox in design as well as execution"-- Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

Evolution and revolution of a conceptual approach

Overview of the working model

Research tactics, subjects, and setting

Facilitation and hyperfacilitation

Perception inhibition

Inhibition of anxiety

Discharge intensity

Response feeback

Memory

Detailed view of mental functions

Motivational dynamics and anxiety

Hypnotic compliance and amnesia

"Primary process" thinking

Therapeutic intervention.

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