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1. book: Biological Mind www.peoplewho.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 10:03:32 -0700 From: Sylvia Caras <[email protected]> Subject: book: Biological Mind Psychology has a view that the brain is the prime mover of our thoughts and actions. So we pay less attention to factors outside the head. Leading us to over emphasize the role of individuals and under emphasize the role of context in a range of cultural phenomena from criminal justice to creative innovation. But actually the brain provides a meeting point for influences both internal and external to every person. p 5 paraphrase The brain as causal introduces a new phenomenon that works against mental patients. the stigma of having a broken brain. By focusing attention on the brains of individual psychiatric patients research is squarely on the brain. The equation of mental illness with brain disorders diminishes consideration of potentially effective therapies that do not physically enter the brain. Problems with individual brains are necessarily problems with individual people, there is an overemphasis on neural underpinnings of mental illness and an understatement of the role of environmental and cultural contributions that extend beyond individuals. p 173 paraphrase The Biological Mind, Alan Jasanoff, Basic Books, 2018 Powered by LSoft's LISTSERV(R) list management software ------------------------------ End of IRIS Digest - 29 May 2018 to 1 Jun 2018 (#2018-43) *********************************************************
