Psychoanalysis And Behavior

nger feels justified in speaking vaguely of the influence of the mind on the body or reciprocally. One can no longer understand life unless one admits that mind and body are one. The task of the psychoanalyst would be a hope- less one if he ever attempted to study the so-called "mental" disturbances as purely "psychic" phenomena; the physician who would treat bodily ailments as purely "physical" manifestations would be baffled and impotent. It is only the profoundly ignorant who at the present day pretend to know the limits of the physical and of the mental and attempt to attribute certain phenomena to the mind and others to the body. Cut off a frog's head, thereby removing the brain which is commonly supposed to be the seat of the mind, of the intelligence, of consciousness, etc. The frog then should be " entirely dead" or at least should not be expected to perform any act, except of a purely reflex type, showing any "intelligence." And yet if you apply a st... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.