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The Ontology of Psychology: Questioning Foundations in the Philosophy of Mind book cover

1st Edition

The Ontology of Psychology Questioning Foundations in the Philosophy of Mind

By Linda A.W. Brakel Copyright 2013
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge
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In this volume, Brakel raises questions about conventions in the study of mind in three disciplines—psychoanalysis, philosophy of mind, and experimental philosophy. She illuminates new understandings of the mind through interdisciplinary challenges to views long-accepted. Here she proposes a view of psychoanalysis as a treatment that owes its successes largely to its biological... Read more

Part I: Introduction 1.Introduction Part II: Biological Psychology 2. Extinction Phenomena: A Biologic Perspective on How and Why Psychoanalysis Works Part III: Psychological Biology 3. The Ontology of Psychology Part IV: Uses and Abuses of Consistency 4. The Uses and Abuses of Consistency in Thought Experiments, Empirical Research, Experimental Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis Part V: Conclusion 5. Summary and Conclusions

Biography

Linda A.W. Brakel is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School and Faculty Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan as well as Faculty Member of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Association.

"Brakel's book offers a cogent and original defense of a biological ontology of the mind. Chapters 2 and 3, in which Brakel puts forward a novel explanation of the biological effectiveness of psychoanalysis and a novel way of placing the psychoanalytical mind in the physical world, are of particular interest...this is a refreshing reconceptualization of the psychoanalytic theory of mind." - Claudia Passos-Ferreira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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