1st Edition

The Microgenetic Theory of Mind and Brain Selected Essays in Process Psychology

Edited By Denys Zhadiaiev, Jason W. Brown, Paul Stenner Copyright 2025
144 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book asks where ideas, objects and feelings come from and how they arise via an exploration of the nature of subjective experience and its relation to the world. Seeking an explanation for the experience of subjective duration and the present and in contrast to the conception of mental events as non-temporal logical solids, it explores a diachronic processual theory founded on psychological... Read more

Introduction  Part 1: Introduction to Section 1: Time  1.1. On the Nature of the Present  1.2. Time and the Dream  Part 2: Introduction to Section 2: Subjectivity  2.1. Origins of Subjective Experience  2.2. The Mind/Brain State  Part 3: Introduction to Section 3: Thought and Value  3.1. From Drive to Value  3.2. Action-Feeling and Self-Conscious Mind  3.3. Thought and Belief  4. Appendix: Microgenesis and the Mind/Brain State: Interviews with Jason Brown

Biography

Jason W. Brown is a behavioural neurologist and, for over 30 years, was Clinical Professor of Neurology at New York University Medical Center, USA.

Denys Zhadiaiev is a scholar, lecturer and Associate Professor at Dnipro University of Technology, Ukraine.

Paul Stenner is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK.