(1976). Psychoanalytic Review, 63:153-154 In the past twenty years laboratory scientists have, almost by accident, confirmed important aspects of psychoanalytic thought. The dream research of Dement and his followers are an example. Penfield's classic experiments are another—when he applied electrical stimulation to brain cells, his patients vividly relived forgotten incidents in their pasts. As we have long understood, nothing in the mind is really lost. Now the journalist Maya Pines brings us a short, popular account of a variety of recent discoveries by brain researchers, findings that must evoke in us the well-known “Aha!” reaction. (Though she does not mention it, brain researchers are even finding brain cells that handle this reaction, signaling that the correct data or solution to a problem has been found.) For us perhaps the most striking chapter deals with the newly found specialization in the left and right halves of the brain (Chapter 7, which received advance publication in The New Y [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.] |
