Principles of Mental Physiology: With Their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of Its Morbid Conditions

D. Appleton, 1883 - 737 pages

BOOK I	1

determining power 5 6 Spiritualistic hypothesis 79 Truths and Errors	26

38 dependence of Nervous power on supply of Oxygenated Blood 3840	38

type of Animal life 4144 Building actions of Rhizopods 43 Nervous System	49

Insects 5661 Nervous System of Vertebrata 6164 of Fishes 65 66	116

CerebroSpinal System of Man 118125 Sympathetic System 125129	125

Education of Attention 133136 Attention to Senseimpressions 137 Suspension	141

CHAPTER IV	148

Reproduction of past states of Consciousness 429431 of Sensorial states 431	431

impairment of by Old Age Disease and Injury 442448 Assimilating process	451

Sense of Personal Identity 455 Fallacies of Memory 456459 Double Con	466

nary Common Sense 472 its genesis 473479 analogy to Secondarily automatic	479

CommonSense Judgments in ordinary life 481483 Progress of Rationalism	486

matic but directed and controlled by Will 489496 Improvisation 492496	492

Fancy 496498 Wit 498501 Humour 501503 Creative Imagination 503	503

Characteristics of Genius 503513 Moral Insight 505 506 Mechanical Inven	510

zation 149151 its dependence on Circulation 151 its diminution or exaltation	155

States 168171 Feelings of Pain or Pleasure 171173 other simple states	173

perceptions of lower Animals 179 Perceptions acquired in Man 180 181 their	186

Appreciation of Form 187 188 of Solid Form stereoscopic 189199	213

CHAPTER VI	220

fication of Ideas by Language 223225 Primary Beliefs 226 Progressive	235

Sense 246 247 Sense of Duty 248	248

Association 258260 Reasoning Power 260262 Volitional direction of Intellec	277

Dominant Ideas 280282 Expectant Attention 282 suspended buttons 283288	283

Diviningrod 288291 Tableturning 292297 Tabletalking 297306 Spirit	315

Thought 322 323 vent given by Action to excited Feelings 324326 their	330

CHAPTER VIII	337

tion 343350 Good and Bad Habits 350 Importance of early rightdirection	353

Sense of Duty 356 357 Right and Justice 357359 Love 360 361 Influence	369

CHAPTER IX	376

matic Action 376378 Physiological distinction between Voluntary and Involun	385

consciousness of Effort 387390 Volitional guidance of Thought essential	392

or Rejection of Propositions 395399 Influence of the Will in Discussion	399

Search for Truth 407 Nature of Truth 408413	408

Determinate attention 423 Physiological condition of Volitional exertion 424	424

OF UNCONSCIOUS CEREBRATION	515

523 in Planchettewriting and Tabletalking 524526 in Writing and Music	523

playing 526 527 in Reasoning processes 527531 in Judgments 531533	539

Abstraction 545 Absence of Mind 546 547 Intermediate states between Sleep	548

Ideas 551553 no special influence of Operator 553 554 Effects of Sugges	563

matic Movement 569 result of Physical Exhaustion 570 diminished activity	580

Common Sense 585 of Moral Sense 586 Recovery of lost traces of past Events	587

sistent and complete 593595 Limitation of Senseperception 595599 Direc	600

CHAPTER XVI	611

Braids researches 616 617 mode of induction of Mesmeric state 618	623

CHAPTER XVII	636

Phenomena of Hachischintoxication 637644 of Opiumintoxication 645648	645

of Alcoholicintoxication 649 650 parallelism to Insanity 651 652 Moral per	655

conditions 658660 Mania 660 661 Intellectual disorder 661 662 Emo	675

Secretions affected by Emotions 677681 Nutrition affected by Emotional states	681

sions 684670 Stigmatization 689	689

OF MIND AND WILL IN NATURE	691

Scientific meaning 692 693 Causation distinguished into Dynamical agency	707

its induction of Hyperæmic state 710 production of Epileptic Convulsion	717

Title	Principles of Mental Physiology: With Their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of Its Morbid Conditions
Author	William Benjamin Carpenter
Publisher	D. Appleton, 1883
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	13 Nov 2008
Length	737 pages

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