| The Realisation of Concepts: Infinity, Cognition, and Health Contributor(s): Bernstein, W. M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 036710234X ISBN-13: 9780367102340 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $178.13 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Physiological Psychology - Psychology | Neuropsychology - Medical | Neuroscience |
| Dewey: 152 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bernstein, W. M.: - W. M. Bernstein trained in Biology, Social Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Psychopharmacology. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Psychology; and, was one of the first psychologists in the US authorized to prescribe psychotropic medicines. |