In this study, Hippocrates' idea of the brain as a storehouse of all mental processes, I.M. Sechenov's hypothesis of the psyche as a derivate of brain reflexes, and I.P. Pavlov's hypothesis of higher nerve activity as an equivalent of the psyche are all critically examined. Psychopharmacology, which targets the exchange of neurotransmitters in the synaptic cleft and hence is expected to alter the mind, is being used to treat mental problems. The author draws on studies of feral children, memory and subliminal perception, the discovery of mirror neurons, and current academic ideas on information in his research. The author establishes the psyche's non-materiality and the brain's role as a biological interface between the ideal and the real world. The new method would necessitate a shift in the old paradigm, as well as all of current approaches to psychiatric research and treatment. What remains to be said is of such a novel and unheard-of nature that I am afraid not only of injury from the envy of a few, but also of having mankind as my enemies, so much to custom and wont that have become second nature, doctrine that has taken root, and reverence for antiquity, influence all men. "On the Motion of the Heart and Blood," by William Harvey (1628).
Author(S) Details
Mikhail Reshetnikov
East European Psychoanalytic Institute, St. Petersburg State University, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria.
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