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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460715803321

Autore

Britton Ronald

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018]

©2015

ISBN

0-429-89714-6

0-429-47237-4

1-78241-425-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 p.)

Disciplina

153

Soggetti

Consciousness

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.