Explores the changing views of the human brain, discussing the brain's role in determining movement, motivation, and mood; describing the development of artistic creativity; and offering a brief history of neuropsychiatry.
Supporting a phenomenological approach to understanding human experiences, Trimble emphasizes the importance of narrative, of telling stories, as the backbone of human culture and individual lives, and the competing desires that enchant the world that human bodies encounter. He does not simply describe neuropsychiatry as a medical discipline, but reflects on how the brain and its functions have been viewed over the centuries, as well as the huge change in orientation germinating within romanticism, which has provided an understanding of the dynamic, active, creative brain. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Neuropsychiatrythe branch of medicine concerned with both the psychic and organic aspects of mental disorderhas a distinguished history, yet its ideals and principles fell out of fashion in the early twentieth century as neurology and psychiatry diverged into separate disciplines. Neuropsychiatry reemerged as the two disciplines moved closer again, accelerated by advances in neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, and drugs that alter the functioning of the central nervous system. But as neuropsychiatrist Michael R. Trimble explains in The Intentional Brain, the new neuropsychiatry has its own identity and is more than simply a borderland between two disparate clinical disciplines.
Looking at neuropsychiatry in the context of major cultural and artistic achievements, Trimble explores changing views of the human brain and its relation to behavior and cognition over 2,500 years of Western civilization. Beginning with the early Greek physicians and moving through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, the Romantic era, and the World Wars, and up to the present day, he explores the brains integral role in determining movement, motivation, and mood. Persuasively arguing that storytelling forms the backbone of human culture and individuality, Trimble describes the dawning and development of artistic creativity and traces the conflicts between different philosophical views of our world and our position in it.
A sweeping history of neuropsychiatry, the book reveals what scientists have learned about movement and emotion by studying people with such diseases as epilepsy, syphilis, hysteria, psychosis, movement disorders, and melancholia.The Intentional Brain is a marvelous and interdisciplinary look at the clinical interface between the mind and the brain.
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