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MIND AND BODY:

RENÉ DESCARTES TO WILLIAM JAMES

by:
Robert H. Wozniak
Bryn Mawr College

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction

• I. RENÉ DESCARTES AND THE LEGACY OF MIND/BODY DUALISM
  1. René Descartes
  2. The 17th Century: Reaction to the Dualism of Mind and Body
  3. The 18th Century: Mind, Matter, and Monism
  4. The 19th Century: Mind and Brain
  5. Mind, Brain, and Adaptation: the Localization of Cerebral Function
  6. Trance and Trauma: Functional Nervous Disorders and the Subconscious Mind
• II. THE RISE OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  1. The 17th and 18th Centuries: The Epistemology of Mind
  2. The 19th Century: The Epistemology of the Nervous System
  3. Mind, Brain, and the Experimental Psychology of Consciousness
• III. PSYCHOLOGY IN AMERICA
  1. Mind, Body, and Culture: American Psychology before William James
  2. Biological Consciousness and the Experience of the Transcendent: William James and American Functional Psychology[By Eugene Taylor, Harvard University Medical School]
• CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBIT
• REFERENCES AND TITLES CONSULTED

Modified from the Catalogue Accompanying an Exhibition of Books from the Collections of the National Library of Medicine, Held in Honor of the Centennial Celebration of the American Psychological Association, August 7 to December 15, 1992

The original exhibition was sponsored by National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland; and the American Psychological Association, Washington D.C. 1992

Author:
Robert H. Wozniak
Bryn Mawr College

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Modificado em: 18-01-1999