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A biological approach to the problem of abnormal behavior.The physiology of craving and satisfaction.

A biological approach to the problem of abnormal behavior.: The physiology of craving and... The next question to consider is the nature of the physiological process which underlies desire. This is of particular interest to us, because of the important part which desires or wishes are supposed to play in the causation of mental disorder. But before we can discuss intelligently this question of the physiology of the wish, we must understand clearly what the word, wish means to us. The psychoanalyst, we have seen, is accustomed to think and talk about a wish as if it were a living entity, a person or thing which moves and has its being in a sort of two-room dwelling place called the mind. For us, however, a wish is a very different thing. For us a wish is nothing more than a certain phenomenon of consciousness which occurs as the result of a certain physiological process. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Science Press Printing Company
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Copyright © 1938 American Psychological Association
Pages
125 –132
DOI
10.1037/14704-010
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The next question to consider is the nature of the physiological process which underlies desire. This is of particular interest to us, because of the important part which desires or wishes are supposed to play in the causation of mental disorder. But before we can discuss intelligently this question of the physiology of the wish, we must understand clearly what the word, wish means to us. The psychoanalyst, we have seen, is accustomed to think and talk about a wish as if it were a living entity, a person or thing which moves and has its being in a sort of two-room dwelling place called the mind. For us, however, a wish is a very different thing. For us a wish is nothing more than a certain phenomenon of consciousness which occurs as the result of a certain physiological process. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Mar 23, 2015

Keywords: physiology; craving; satisfaction; desire

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