Volume 32, Number 12 · July 18, 1985
Snails on the Couch
By B.A. Farrell
Brain and Psyche: The Biology of the Unconscious
by Jonathan Winson
Anchor/Doubleday, 300 pp., $16.95
Mind, Brain, Body: Toward a Convergence of Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology
by Morton F. Reiser
Basic Books, 228 pp., $19.95
We have a good idea today of how the body enables us to digest our food, or to run a mile in four minutes, but matters are very different when we turn to our mental life. Of course, we know that it is dependent in all sorts of intimate ways on the working of our body and in particular of our nervous system. When, for example, a man sees a physical object we have good reason to believe that certain events have taken place in certain parts of his brain. If he suffers from a head injury that affects the occipital area, we have good reason to expect that his vision will be disturbed in characteristic ways.
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