The Human Mind: The Organ of Thought in Function and Dysfunction
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The domination of Freud over psychotherapy during the past decades has, to a considerable extent, obscured the study of mind as a thinking organ. Much of modern research has been directed to the discovery of evidence in support ?f Freudian claims (and those of derivative schools) while the investigation of man's intellect, having in view that most of man's problems are due to thinking disorder, has been oddly neglected. It is, therefore, welcome and stimulating to find a medical psychologist of standing who is blazing a new trail away from Freud yet, in the reviewer's opinion, who is advancing the path of true psychological progress. Dr. Murdo Mackenzie is well known for his original views on the subject of anxiety and depression, and the present work is a comprehensive elucidation of his hypothesis of mind activity in function and dysfunction. Dr. Mackenzie takes his stand on the premise that mind is an organ with thinking as its function.. ^ is by reason of his organ of thinking that man w what he is, and his mind troubles are essentially determined by thinking troubles. The forces of the mind are differentiated as " immediacy "
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