Principles of Mental Physiology
With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions
Seiten
2009
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-00528-9 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-00528-9 (ISBN)
In Principles of Mental Physiology, published in 1874, Carpenter demonstrates the arguments for and against two models of psychology – automatism, which assumed that the mind operates under the control of the physiology of the body for all human activity, and free will, 'an independent Power, controlling and directing that activity.'
William Carpenter (1813–85) was trained as a doctor; he was apprenticed to an eye surgeon, and later attended University College London and the University of Edinburgh, obtaining his M. D. in 1839. Rather than practising medicine, he became a teacher, specialising in neurology, and it was his work as a zoologist on marine invertebrates that brought him wide scientific recognition. His Principles of Mental Physiology, published in 1874, developed the ideas he had first expounded in the 1850s, and expounds the arguments for and against the two models of psychology then current – automatism, which assumed that the mind operates under the control of the physiology of the body for all human activity, and free will, 'an independent power, controlling and directing that activity.' Drawing on animal as well as human examples, his arguments, especially on the acquisition of mental traits in the individual, are much influenced by Darwin.
William Carpenter (1813–85) was trained as a doctor; he was apprenticed to an eye surgeon, and later attended University College London and the University of Edinburgh, obtaining his M. D. in 1839. Rather than practising medicine, he became a teacher, specialising in neurology, and it was his work as a zoologist on marine invertebrates that brought him wide scientific recognition. His Principles of Mental Physiology, published in 1874, developed the ideas he had first expounded in the 1850s, and expounds the arguments for and against the two models of psychology then current – automatism, which assumed that the mind operates under the control of the physiology of the body for all human activity, and free will, 'an independent power, controlling and directing that activity.' Drawing on animal as well as human examples, his arguments, especially on the acquisition of mental traits in the individual, are much influenced by Darwin.
Preface; Book I. General Physiology: 1. Of the general relations between mind and body; 2. Of the nervous system and its functions; 3. Of attention; 4. Of sensation; 5. Of perception and instinct; 6. Of ideation and ideo-motor action; 7. Of the emotions; 8. Of habit; 9. Of the will; Book II. Special Physiology: 10. Of memory; 11. Of common sense; 12. Of imagination; 13. Of unconscious cerebration; 14. Of reverie and abstraction–electro-biology; 15. Of sleep, dreaming and somnambulism; 16. Of mesmerism and spiritualism; 17. Of intoxication and delirium; 18. Of insanity; 19. Influence of mental states on the organic functions; 20. Of mind and will in nature; Appendix.
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 870 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-00528-4 / 1108005284 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-00528-9 / 9781108005289 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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