MIND AND BODY: RENÉDESCARTES TO WILLIAM JAMES    Robert H. Wozniak Bryn Mawr College

The original exhibition was sponsored by National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland; and the American Psychological Association, Washington D.C. 1992

Atranslation into Spanishhas been prepared and made available by Miguel Angel de la Cruz Vives.

Acknowledgements

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction

• I. RENÉDESCARTES AND THE LEGACY OF MIND/BODY DUALISM
  1. RenéDescartes
  2. The 17th Century: Reaction to the Dualism of Mind and Body
  3. The 18th Century: Mind, Matter, and Monism
  4. The 19th Century: Mind and Brain
  5. Mind, Brain, and Adaptation: the Localization of Cerebral Function
  6. Trance and Trauma: Functional Nervous Disorders and the Subconscious Mind

• II. THE RISE OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  1. The 17th and 18th Centuries: The Epistemology of Mind
  2. The 19th Century: The Epistemology of the Nervous System
  3. Mind, Brain, and the Experimental Psychology of Consciousness

• III. PSYCHOLOGY IN AMERICA
  1. Mind, Body, and Culture: American Psychology before William James
  2. Biological Consciousness and the Experience of the Transcendent: William James and American Functional Psychology[By Eugene Taylor, Harvard University Medical School]

• CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBIT
• REFERENCES AND TITLES CONSULTED

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