Body And Mind: An Inquiry Into Their Connection And Mutual Influence, Specially In Reference To Mental Disorders - Softcover

Henry Maudsley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 046135408X ISBN 13: 9780461354089

Publisher: HardPress, 2019

Synopsis

Body And Mind: An Inquiry Into Their Connection And Mutual Influence, Specially In Reference To Mental Disorders by Henry Maudsley. This volume presents a systematic, clinical examination of how physical processes and nervous system function relate to mental phenomena. Maudsley argues for a unified science of mind and body, illustrating how habits, reflexes, and higher brain functions arise from anatomical and physiological development. Through Lectures on the physical condition of mental function in health, forms of degeneracy of mind, and the relations of morbid bodily states to disordered mental functions, he grounds psychiatry in pathology and physiology. The essays—Hamlet, Emanuel Swedenborg, the Theory of Vitality, and the Limits of Philosophical Inquiry—extend these themes to creativity, spirituality, vitality, and the philosophy of science. The work traces the evolution of mind from simple nerve action to complex moral sense, while insisting that mind cannot be understood apart from the body.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 046135408X
• ISBN 13: 9780461354089
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372