The Realisation of Concepts: Infinity, Cognition, and Health

ISBN-13: 9780367102340 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 250 str.

W. M. Bernstein

Opis

This book argues that the ability to integrate biological and psychological levels of understanding is inhibited by two important issues. Ideas about the autonomic nervous system are integrated with those from the author's previous text A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis.

Spis treści

Plan of the book , Preface , Introduction , Part I , Scientific concepts and human evolution , Theory-building organisations , Barriers to knowledge and theoretical integration , Recent consensus and longstanding problems , Controlling sensations, concepts, feelings, and overt behaviour , Recapitulation of axiomatic assumptions and their connections , Part II , Parasympathetic systems and affect theory , Autonomic nervous systems I: stress and anxiety , Scientific concepts and human evolution , Psychopathology , Part III , Information processing, mental competence and psychotherapy , Authority, self-control, and metatheory , Moving through space, time, and light , L’esprit D’escalier , Psychosomatics in religion and science

O autorze

WM Bernstein