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An account of perception is essential for an interpretation of memory, thought, and the mental state. The theory expounded in this book, developed from clinical studies of brain-damaged individuals, is a dynamic process account that departs from static computational models of the mind, with implications for our understanding of all aspects of mental function, including the mind/brain problem. The various topics are discussed in lengthy essays that cover such phenomena as imagery, reality and illusion, time and the present moment, subjectivity, will and agency, and psychoanalysis and group psychology.
“This is a courageous and innovative account of the human mind
and its faculties—courageous because the author resists the
temptation to reduce mind to brain, innovative because he draws his
basic ideas from microgenesis, a process approach he developed over
several decades of work as a neurologist. A fresh point of view
with original insights that will inspire everyone interested in the
big questions of psychology and the philosophy of mind.”
—Harald Atmanspacher, Collegium Helveticum
“There is no one who has consistently moved the dial forward on the
understanding of cognition informed by process-relational thought
as comprehensively and cogently as Jason Brown. This volume, with
both philosophical as well as clinical relevance, is the mature
work of someone who has devoted their intellectual life to this
exploration. Microgenesis as a process theory explaining the
dynamics of the mental life of the organism and the ordered
evolution of mind/brain states that underpin the real vitality of
the mind, receives its clearest, most thorough, and most convincing
elucidation in this new tour-de-force—Mental States and
Conceptual Worlds.”
—Gary Goldberg, Medical College of Virginia
“Since my own first encounter with Jason Brown’s work over twenty
years ago, even before I fully understood how microgenetic theory
works, I have always felt quite sure that something profoundly
important is at stake here. I can only hope, then, that a critical
mass of those who read this book will agree.”
—Bruce D. MacQueen, author, from the Foreword
“This is a courageous and innovative account of the human mind
and its faculties—courageous because the author resists the
temptation to reduce mind to brain, innovative because he draws his
basic ideas from microgenesis, a process approach he developed over
several decades of work as a neurologist. A fresh point of view
with original insights that will inspire everyone interested in the
big questions of psychology and the philosophy of mind.”
—Harald Atmanspacher, Collegium Helveticum
“There is no one who has consistently moved the dial forward on the
understanding of cognition informed by process-relational thought
as comprehensively and cogently as Jason Brown. This volume, with
both philosophical as well as clinical relevance, is the mature
work of someone who has devoted their intellectual life to this
exploration. Microgenesis as a process theory explaining the
dynamics of the mental life of the organism and the ordered
evolution of mind/brain states that underpin the real vitality of
the mind, receives its clearest, most thorough, and most convincing
elucidation in this new tour-de-force—Mental States and
Conceptual Worlds.”
—Gary Goldberg, Medical College of Virginia
“Since my own first encounter with Jason Brown’s work over twenty
years ago, even before I fully understood how microgenetic theory
works, I have always felt quite sure that something profoundly
important is at stake here. I can only hope, then, that a critical
mass of those who read this book will agree.”
—Bruce D. MacQueen, author, from the Foreword
A professor of neurology at NYU Medical Center for almost thirty
years, with teaching appointments at Columbia-Presbyterian and
Albert Einstein Medical Centers and Rockefeller University in New
York, Jason Brown has contributed widely to neuropsychology, theory
of mind, and process philosophy. He is the author of sixteen books
and over two hundred articles, and has served on the editorial
boards of many journals in this field. He has received numerous
fellowships and grants, and was awarded the Copernicus Prize for
his work in neuropsychology.