Realisation of Concepts : Infinity, Cognition, and Health.

There has recently been a flurry of theoretical activity in affective neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis. This book argues that the ability to integrate biological and psychological levels of understanding is inhibited by two important issues. First is the assumption made by most theorists that physical and mental phenomena are essentially different (""the Hard Problem""). Second, is the ambiguity of the widely used ""Affect Concept"". Ideas about the autonomic nervous system are integrated with those from the author's previous text A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis. The Realization of C.

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COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PLAN OF THE BOOK -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION Conceptual fashions -- PART I -- CHAPTER ONE Scientific concepts and human evolution -- CHAPTER TWO Theory-building organisations -- CHAPTER THREE Barriers to knowledge and theoretical integration -- CHAPTER FOUR Recent consensus and longstanding problems -- CHAPTER FIVE Controlling sensations, concepts, feelings, and overt behaviour -- CHAPTER SIX Recapitulation of axiomatic assumptions and their connections -- PART II -- CHAPTER SEVEN Parasympathetic systems and affect theory -- CHAPTER EIGHT Autonomic nervous systems I: stress and anxiety -- CHAPTER NINE Autonomic nervous systems II: thinking, feeling, and overt behaviour -- CHAPTER TEN Psychopathology -- PART III -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Information processing, mental competence and psychotherapy -- CHAPTER TWELVE Authority, self-control, and metatheory -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Moving through space, time, and light -- L'ESPRIT D'ESCALIER -- CONCLUSION Psychosomatics in religion and science -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-205) and index.

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