Conscious and Unconscious Programs in the Brain (Perspectives in Social Psychology, 1)

"For almost a century now, since Freud described the basic motivations and Pavlov the basic mechanisms of human behavior, we have had a reasonable concept of the forces that drive us. Only recently have we gained any real insight into how the brain really works to produce such behavior. The new developments in cognitive psychology and neuroscience have taught us things about the function of the brain that would have been inconceivable even ten years ago. Yet, there still remains a tremendous gap between the two studies-human behavior and brain function-a gap which often seems irrecƯ oncilable in view of the basic differences in the methodologies and approaches of the two fields. Students of behavior are frequently disinterested in the underlying neuƯ rophysiology while neurophysiologists tend to consider the concepts of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists too vague and theoretical to be applicable to their own more limited schemata. Several valiant attempts have been made by experimentalists to develop a theoretical context in which behavior is described, not separately from brain function but rather as its direct outgrowth. This present work is still another attempt to develop a theoretical system which, given the limitations of our present knowledge, as completely as possible, the underlying brain mechanisms that influƯ will describe ence and determine human behavior. The main emphasis of this work, however, will be not on normal behavior but rather on more neurotic manifestations"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xxii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Anatomical and Functional Organization of the Central Nervous System....Pages 3-12 The Biological Origins of Motivated Behavior....Pages 13-29 Adaptive and Affective Roles of the Emotions....Pages 31-43 Perception, Learning, and Engram Formation....Pages 45-62 Language and the Higher Cognitive Processes....Pages 63-77 Front Matter....Pages 79-79 Functional Organization of the Consciousness System....Pages 81-93 Self-Awareness and the Anatomy of the Subjective Self....Pages 95-104 Attention as Directed Consciousness....Pages 105-123 Recognition, Memory Retrieval, Mental Set, and Other Decisional Operations of the Neocortex....Pages 125-141 The Alert Conscious State: Controlled Processing of Episodic and Affective Data....Pages 143-157 The Procedural Unconscious: Automatic Processing of Mechanical, Structural, and Semantic Data....Pages 159-173 The Episodic Unconscious: Semicontrolled Unconscious Processing of Episodic and Affective Material....Pages 175-187 Front Matter....Pages 189-189 The Effects of Emotionality on Conscious and Unconscious Information Processing....Pages 191-205 Differential Cognitive and Emotional Functions of the Cerebral Hemispheres....Pages 207-221 The Disparate Levels of Consciousness in the Two Hemispheres....Pages 223-233 Psychological Defense Mechanisms as Interactions between Hierarchical and Hemispheric Functions....Pages 235-247 Front Matter....Pages 249-249 A Psychobiological Model of Conscious and Unconscious Brain Activity....Pages 251-268 The Role of Childhood and Adult Stress in the Genesis of the Decathected Unconscious....Pages 269-284 Psychobiological Mechanisms in Personality Development....Pages 285-304 Psychobiological Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of the Neuroses....Pages 305-320 Front Matter....Pages 249-249 Hypnagogic States and Transcendent Experience....Pages 321-335 Psychobiology and Psychoanalytic Methodology....Pages 337-355 Back Matter....Pages 357-384