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"This book discusses the nervous system of invertebrates, the brain of vertebrates, and the mind." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
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"This book has been written to show how the autonomic apparatus dominates the organism, and that the affections have their origin in the peripheral functions of this apparatus. Therefore the affections should be recognized as the dominating, dynamic force of the personality, that determine the nature of its normal and abnormal traits and behavior. A theory of the neutralization mechanism of the autonomic or affective functions is proposed in the text and the psychological nature of its variations is presented so that the reader may use the theory and data in his work with biological and psychological problems. By developing a thoroughly dynamic conception of the personality, the biologist and physiologist, the psychologist and psychiatrist, the clinician, the criminologist, and the social worker can acquire a far more intelligent insight into their problems. At present there is an unusually strong tendency among behaviorists and biologists to urge psychobiological conceptions that include the personality as a whole, following the suggestions of Hughlings Jackson, on the three integrative levels--structural, physiological and psychological. This is particularly valuable in that it discourages the adoption of the old, sinister soul-body, parallelistic notions of the personality which have so long diverted enthusiasm and obscured the vision of psychobiological researchers"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).
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"This book is first of all a consideration in the light of recent experimental investigation of certain of the physiological conditions which antedate the appearance of the nervous system, and with which its appearance and development appear to be closely associated. It is, in fact, an attempt to establish the existence of physiological continuity between the simple quantitative gradient in physiological condition and the nervous system. Since the book is concerned first with this question of continuity and its nature and since no general consideration of the physiological gradients has appeared since 1915, it has been found necessary to devote the earlier chapters to a discussion of pattern in the organism and its relation to the gradients. These chapters constitute the basis for the consideration of the nervous system in the stricter sense"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).