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Kunstadt, L.P. (1986). Brain and Psyche. The Biology of the Unconscious: By Jonathan Winson. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1985. 300 pp.. Psychoanal Q., 55:689-690.

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(1986). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 55:689-690

Brain and Psyche. The Biology of the Unconscious: By Jonathan Winson. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1985. 300 pp.

Lawrence P. Kunstadt Author Information

This is an interesting, well-written book containing some novel ideas on the relation between brain and mind, but despite the title, it is not for psychoanalysts. The book elaborates one hypothesis that does not justify an analyst's time spent reading the three hundred pages of text.

About forty percent of the book is devoted to a presentation of some aspects of undergraduate physiological psychology. Its main point is to introduce the notion that the spiny anteater, family echidna, does not exhibit REM sleep, unlike the dozen or so other mammals which have been studied, but that this animal does have a relatively large prefrontal cortex, larger for its body size than that of any other living mammal, including man.

Another forty-odd percent of the text contains a historical overview of psychoanalysis. There is nothing in this section that is not already familiar to the analytic reader. The final fifteen percent makes up the crux of the book. (Actually, the core of the argument

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