"An Essay on the Physiology of Mind," and subtitles it an "Interpretation Based on Biological, Morphological, Physical and Chemical Considerations." To the reviewer such a title and such a subtitle would seem to indicate that the author was after all not dealing with the mind at all. The biological sciences are freely called upon to interpret the mind, but the mind itself seems to escape; it is not even interrogated; it slips out between biology and physics and chemistry and physiology just as in the olden days it slipped ...
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"An Essay on the Physiology of Mind," and subtitles it an "Interpretation Based on Biological, Morphological, Physical and Chemical Considerations." To the reviewer such a title and such a subtitle would seem to indicate that the author was after all not dealing with the mind at all. The biological sciences are freely called upon to interpret the mind, but the mind itself seems to escape; it is not even interrogated; it slips out between biology and physics and chemistry and physiology just as in the olden days it slipped out of the broken pane in the window when the patient died. This is a book on the mind with nothing about the mind in it. It shows that inevitable tendency of certain types of individuals to reductive analysis. Everything must be expressed in terms of something lower or something simpler. Mind must be reduced to terms of physiology and physiology must be reduced to terms of chemistry and physics. There is an identification of the psychological and the physiological much to the disadvantage of the former and an identification which to the reviewer is pushed to unwarrantable extremes, as, for example, the absolute identification of mental and cortical (p. 126). The reviewer wonders just exactly to what audience the writer is addressing his book. It is an interesting summary and correlation and association of a large number of biological facts and facts from other departments of science, altogether too technical, however, for the novice and for the technically trained altogether too brief and sketchy, and then again for the latter class there can be no longer any satisfaction derived from seeing hysteria referred to as a neuropathy of degeneracy (p. 128). The book is in a field with which the reviewer has great sympathy because he feels that it is of prime importance for the organicist and the functionalist to get together on some common basis and all such works as this help to that end. Dr. Dercum is essentially an organicist, and this book is a pronouncement from that side of the case. As such it will probably appeal more to the organicist than the functionalist, because for the latter it is still too concrete, too little psychological. -- The Psychoanalytic Review, Volume 9
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