Bob Young's books available online. --Best, Norm
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I am glad to announce that (with the aid of Helen Davies) I have
put my first book on my seb site:
_Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century: Cerebral
Localization and Its Biological Context from Gall to Ferrier_ (Oxford,
1970, 1990).
Although the title may look forbidingly technical and specialised,
the book is an attempt to think about the relationship between mind and
brain in the period from the first empirical to the first experimental work
on the topic. Its net is cast broadly to include theories of human nature,
evolution and the history of psychology. One way of viewing its inspiration
is that I sought to look behind the approach Freud took in his first book,
_On Aphasia_ (1901). Another is that I sought to explore the interrelations
between biological and psycholopgical theory in the nineteenth century -
the foundations of our present ways of thinking about these matters.
In addition to obtaining the rights to that book in order to put it
on the net, I have
placed four others on my web site:
_Darwin's Metaphor: Nature's Place in Victorian Culture_ (Cambridge, 1985)
_Mental Space_ (Process Press, 1994)
_Whatever Happened to Human Nature?_ (Process Press, in press)
_The Culture of British Psychoanalysis_ (Process Press, forthcoming).
These books, along with about seventy articles and essays are
available for reading or downloading at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/psysc/staff/rmyoung/papers/index.html
Some more personal essays and information about the journals,
_Free Associations: Psychoanalysis, Groups, Politics, Culture_ and _Science
as Culture, along with the other existing and planned publications of
Process Press, are available at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/psysc/staff/rmyoung/index.html
There are facilities for sending comments and feedback at these sites.
I shall continue putting my writings on the web until all of the
substantial ones are there.
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Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7
9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic
Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/
Process Press publications:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html
'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus