Title: Inhibition : history and meaning in the sciences of mind and brain /
Authors: Smith, Roger, 1945-
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Neurophysiology History.; Psychology History; Inhibition.; Inhibition, Psychological; Neurophysiology history; Psychology history
Contents: The history of inhibition -- Conduct, loss of control, and mental organization: The mind's power over the body and the bodily economy. Disorder and loss of control. Regulation and mental content -- Inhibition in neurophysiology: Reflex organization. Peripheral inhibition. Central inhibition: I.M. Sechenov -- Inhibition and the relations between physiology and psychology, 1870-1930: Inhibition and the brain. Mechanisms of inhibition. Physiological and experimental psychology. Hierarchical control, evolution, and medical psychology -- Twentieth-century schools: C.S. Sherrington. I.P. Pavlov. Sigmund Freud -- Reflections.