Metanexus: Views 2001.11.28 3806 words According to Nathaniel S. Lehrman, M.D.: “Humanity’s theological conceptionshave changed over the thousands of years just as biological species haveevolved over the millions. And these ascertainable theological conceptionshave had immense, scientifically-definable effects on human behavior.” This is an interesting statement, and not for its theological implicationsalone, for it would seem…
The Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication and Explanation, by John Horgan The Free Press, New York, 1999, ISBN 0-684-85075-3; $25.00; 326 pages Contents Introduction I-Witnessing 1. Neuroscience’s Explanatory Gap 2. Why Freud Isn’t Dead 3. Psychotherapy and the Dodo Hypothesis 4. Prozac and Other Placebos 5. Gene-Whiz Science 6. Darwin…
Meta 166. 1999/12/20. Approximately 2567 words. Below is a review of Robert Pollack’s new book “The Missing Moment:How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science.” The review is written byNat Lehrman in New York. The largely positive review below isbalanced by another review by Stephen Hall in the New York Times BookReviews on December 19, 1999 entitled…