Conscious and Unconscious Programs in the Brain
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
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PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Benjamin Kissin, M.D.
Volume 1
Conscious and Unconscious Programs in the Brain
Volume 2
Psychobiology of Neurosis
Volume 3
Psychobiology of Addiction, Perversion, and Psychopathy
Volume 4
Psychobiology of Psychosomatic Disorders
Conscious and Unconscious Programs in the Brain
Benjamin Kissin, M.D. State University of New York Health Science Center Brooklyn, New York
Plenum Medical Book Company • New York and London
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Kissin, Benjamin. Conscious and unconscious programs in the brain. (Psychobiology of human behavior; v. 1) Bibliography: p. Includes indexes. 1. Consciousness. 2. Psychobiology. 3. Neuropsychology. I. Title. II. Series. [DNLM: 1. Consciousness. 2. Neuropsychology. 3. Psychoanalytical Theory. 4. Psychophysiology. 5. Unconscious (Psychology) WL 103 K61c) QP411.K57 1986 153 86-12310 ISBN-13: 978-1-4612-9287-6 e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-2187-3 DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4613-2187-3
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To my wife
Eve whose unfaltering support made possible the writing of this book and all the other interesting enterprises of my life
Cytoarchitectonic maps. From Brodmann, 1909.
Preface
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 irreconcilable in view of the basic differences in the methodologies and approaches of the two fields. Students of behavior are frequently disinterested in the underlying neurophysiology 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, will describe as completely as possible, the underlying brain mechanisms that influence and determine human behavior. The main emphasis of this work, howev
