Psychopathology And Psychiatry: Selected Works
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
At the intersection of neuroscience and the human mind stands Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, one of the most towering scientific intellects of the twentieth century, and Psychopathology and Psychiatry: Selected Works presents a curated collection of his most penetrating writings on mental illness, brain function, and human behaviour. Compiled by Prof. V. Popov, Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, and Prof. L. Rokhlin, this anthology distills Pavlov's lifelong investigation into the physiological underpinnings of psychiatric conditions, drawing on his landmark research into conditioned reflexes and higher nervous activity to illuminate the biological roots of psychological disorders. Pavlov's prose is rigorous yet revelatory, grounding abstract psychiatric concepts in the concrete language of laboratory science, and his arguments challenge readers to reconsider the boundary between mind and body. Published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House, this volume occupies a singular position in the history of psychological thought, offering Western readers direct access to the ideas of a Nobel laureate whose theories shaped Soviet psychiatry and reverberated through global medical science for decades. For anyone seeking to understand the physiological architecture of the human psyche, this collection remains an indispensable and deeply provocative primary source.
Author: I.P. Pavlov
Format: Hardback
Genre: Psychology
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
At the intersection of neuroscience and the human mind stands Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, one of the most towering scientific intellects of the twentieth century, and Psychopathology and Psychiatry: Selected Works presents a curated collection of his most penetrating writings on mental illness, brain function, and human behaviour. Compiled by Prof. V. Popov, Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, and Prof. L. Rokhlin, this anthology distills Pavlov's lifelong investigation into the physiological underpinnings of psychiatric conditions, drawing on his landmark research into conditioned reflexes and higher nervous activity to illuminate the biological roots of psychological disorders. Pavlov's prose is rigorous yet revelatory, grounding abstract psychiatric concepts in the concrete language of laboratory science, and his arguments challenge readers to reconsider the boundary between mind and body. Published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House, this volume occupies a singular position in the history of psychological thought, offering Western readers direct access to the ideas of a Nobel laureate whose theories shaped Soviet psychiatry and reverberated through global medical science for decades. For anyone seeking to understand the physiological architecture of the human psyche, this collection remains an indispensable and deeply provocative primary source.