Lectures on Psycho-Physiology (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

J. Martin Littlejohn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330467914 ISBN 13 : 9781330467916

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Unlocking the mind through body: a clear map of how psychology became scientific. This edition presents the rise of modern psychology and how mind and brain connect, offering a grounded view of concepts from experience, reason, and the nervous system.

This book traces the major shifts in thought that shaped psychology as a science. It explains how early ideas about consciousness gave way to experimental methods and physiological grounding, and how American, British, and German perspectives merged to form a practical study of mental life.

• How mind and brain are linked through the nervous system and bodily processes.


• Key turning points that moved psychology from speculation to measurable science.


• Foundational figures and schools that shaped modern thought on perception, sensation, and mental function.


• In-depth discussions of how objective methods illuminate inner experience, with clear examples.

Ideal for readers of psychology, philosophy, and medical education who want a concise, historically grounded introduction to psycho-physiology and its core ideas.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

We beg-in today a coiu se in Psycholog-y for the first time in this institution. It marks an important departure in the curriculum of a medical school. In veryfewmedicalschoolsin this country or elsewheredowe find this subject dealt with. And yet it is a most important branch of knowledg-e. I ts introduction marks the recog-nition of the unity of man in his tripartite beingof body, soul and spirit. If medicine I use it in the wide sense defined in the beg-inning-of Physiolog-y professes to preserve the health and life of man and to cure diseased conditions that threaten to destroy his health and life, then it must recognize that the materia medica of medical science must apply not alone to purely bodily and material elements of life but also to that other and not less important part of the human system, :the pychic nature. Recog-nizing that Osteopathy wishes to bea perfect as well as an exact science, we introduce into our curriculumthe study of the mind, mental conditions and operations and mental phenomena because these have an important bearingupon the health and the comfort of life. Modern psycholog-y has been chiefly developed in Great Britain and Germany and the United States. There have been three lines alongwhich psycholog-y has developed. (1) A longthe empirical line, based upon so called experience. (2) Speculative, chiefly in Germany, orig-inated by the philosophy of Kant who made reason the central element in psycholog-y. His conception of reason is centralized in the imperative of duty laid down by reason as the basis of all intellectual and moral development. (3) Scientific, this represents the new movement in psycholog-y which received its first and main impetus from the evolution school of philosophy.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330467914
• ISBN 13: 9781330467916
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 171
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